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LIVING  BY  NATURAL  LAW 


An  Outline  of  a  Real  Synthetic  Philosophy 
Founded  upon  the  Prime  Factors  of  the 
Universe  and  the  Seven  Sense  Organ- 
isms of  the  Human  Body. 


BY 


JOHN   EDWIN   AYER 


The  glory  of  a  tree  is  to  rise  in  splendid  height; 
The  glory  of  a  bird  is  to  rise  in  lofty  flight; 
The  glory  of  a  man  is  to  rise  in  noble  thought; 
By  rising  from  the  earth  is  most  of  glory  wrought. 


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SEATTLE,  WASH. 
1906 


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CONTENTS. 

Page. 

Introduction    5 

Genetics    9 

The  Study  of  Human  Life 13 

The  Seven  Senses 17 

Temperaments    32 

The  Human  Virtues 39 

Bad   Habits   62 

Philosophy  of  Disease 69 

Laws    of    Food 75 

Protection  and  Clothing  85 

Physical    Exercise   90 

Natural    Cleanliness    93 

Rational  Education  96 

Religion    102 

Laws  of  Reproduction 106 

Law  of  Races 112 

Significance  of  Humanity 117 

Natural  Law  in  Social  Relations 121 

Phrenology    136 


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INTRODUCTION. 

The  problem  of  human  life  may  be  resolved 
into  two  sciences :  If  we  look  clearly  and  broadly 
into  the  last  and  most  wonderful  century  of  hu- 
man progress,  we  are  astonished,  both  by  its 
progress  and  by  its  lack  of  progress ;  and  if  we 
analyze  these  results,  we  find  that  the  progress 
is  nearly  all  confined  to  the  science  of  "Getting 
a  Living,"  while  the  immeasurably  finer  science, 
that  of  "Living,"  itself  has  strangely  dragged 
behind.  This  assertion  is  apparently  contra- 
dicted by  many  discoveries  of  science  for  reliev- 
ing and  palliating  human  suffering  and  misery, 
for  softening  human  cruelty,  for  moderating  in- 
justice, and  for  crowding  back  the  many  phases 
of  superstition.  But  all  these  results  are  only 
the  shallow  margin  of  the  problem ;  they  are,  in 
a  way,  but  accidents ;  they  do  not  make  a  man  to 
feel  that  he  knows  the  world,  that  he  knows  hu- 
manity, that  he  knows  himself. 

The  writer  hereof  believes  that  the  time  has 
come  when  the  most  free  minded,  the  most  cour- 
ageous, the  most  progressive  portion  of  the  real 
thinkers  of  society  are  able  and  willing  to  grasp 
and  exercise  an  exposition  of  the  science  of  hu- 
man living  that  shall  have  the  illuminating 
power  of  a  real  synthetic  philosophy.  A  philos- 
ophy which  is  founded  firmly  upon  the  primal 
factors  of  the  universe  and  the  prime  factors  of 


6  Living  by  Natural  Laic. 

human  consciousness;  a  philosophy  which  shall 
bring  all  the  phenomena  of  human  instinct,  im- 
pulse and  desire  within  rational  knowledge,  and 
a  philosophy  which  can  be  adjusted  to  simple 
and  lucid  forms  of  expression. 

While  this  work  will  give  a  new  dress  to  the 
philosophy  offered,  and  advance  much  that  has 
probably  never  before  been  written,  the  author 
cannot  claim  the  honor  of  discovering  the  funda- 
mental principles,  nor  most  of  the  grand  concep- 
tions to  be  found  within  these  pages.  To  an  ob- 
scure but  most  profound  scientific  astronomer, 
Prof.  Samuel  T.  Fowler,  is  to  be  credited  the  dis- 
covery of  a  tangible  universal  system  which  the 
highest  and  grandest  thinkers  of  all  known  times 
have  sought  to  grasp.  Under  the  term  "Genet- 
ics" he  advanced  his  philosophy  to  the  point  of 
declaring  that  the  keys  he  gave  to  the  world 
would  in  time  unlock  all  the  mysteries  of  the  uni- 
verse that  the  normal  human  mind  could  have  a 
natural  desire  to  know. 

To  the  mind  of  another  brilliant  thinker  came 
these  principles  of  Fowler  as  a  great  light.  Prof. 
Wm.  Windsor,  a  phrenologist  of  great  and  ex- 
tensive experience  and  observation,  saw  the  op- 
portunity of  advancing  the  science  made  famous 
by  Gait  and  O.  S.  Fowler  (brother  of  S.  T.  Fow- 
ler), and  out  of  the  system  of  genetics  has  devel- 
oped the  school  of  Vitosophy;  in  which  the  pri- 
mal factors  of  humanity,  the  seven  sense  organ- 
isms, and  the  secondary  factors,   the  tempera- 


Introduction.  7 

ments  of  the  human  body,  are  now  being  brought 
to  the  understanding  and  recognition  of  society. 

But  the  work  of  giving  knowledge  to  society, 
when  it  involves  the  destruction  of  what  soci- 
ety believes  that  it  knows,  is  profoundly  difficult, 
and  in  the  present  case  we  are  confronted  by  a 
problem  in  social  reform  which,  for  breadth  and 
complexity,  involving  as  it  does  the  most  sensi- 
tive nerves,  has  never  had  a  rival  in  difficulty  or 
importance.  No  publication  of  the  science  of 
living  has  yet  been  so  framed  as  to  reach  the 
mind  of  that  practically  progressive  element  of 
society  upon  which  wTe  must  depend  to  give  form 
and  effect  to  any  movement  for  social  reform. 
That  the  work  shall  be  accomplished  is  inevit- 
able; but  by  wiiat  agency  no  one  can  say.  It  is 
therefore  the  privilege  and  duty  of  each  one  who 
gains  the  knowledge  to  test  his  power  for  giving 
out  the  light,  though  his  only  reward  may  be  the 
joy  of  effort. 

The  author  cannot  undertake  at  the  present 
time  to  offer  more  than  the  briefest  outline  of 
such  an  all-embracing  philosophy.  To  elaborate 
it  fully  will  call  for  a  whole  library  of  matter. 
In  fact,  all  philosophy,  sciences,  ethics  and  the- 
ology will  in  time  have  to  be  rewritten  in  the 
light  of  the  wronderful  keys  of  knowledge  which 
Genetics  and  Vitosophy  unfold. 

JOHN  EDWIN  AYER. 

Seattle,  Washington. 


GENETICS. 

The  principles  of  Genetics  were  discovered  by 
Prof.  Samuel  T.  Fowler,  of  Washington  City, 
while  studying  the  phenomena  of  tidal  action 
upon  the  earth,  and  the  contradiction  of  the  New- 
tonian theory  of  attraction  and  repulsion  of  mat- 
ter. During  these  studies  he  discovered  that  the 
forces  announced  by  Newton  really  acted  re- 
versely from  what  he  supposed,  although  his 
mathematics  giving  the  ratios  and  rates  of  force 
were  correct.  By  this  revision  of  theories,  Fow- 
ler was  able  to  discover  a  complete  system  of 
synthetic  philosophy  which  made  it  possible  to 
disclose  the  relationship  of  all  the  substances,  all 
the  forces  and  all  the  intelligences  throughout 
the  universe. 

It  would  be  extremely  difficult  to  give  at  once 
a  clear  idea  of  this  system  to  the  average  unscien- 
tific reader,  and  I  can  perhaps  do  no  better  than 
give  a  few  of  the  definitions  developed  from  Fow- 
ler's discoveries  and  published  by  me  in  a  recent 
issue  of  Popular  Astronomy. 

"First:  Let  us  recognize  a  basic  universal 
substance,  filling  all  space,  out  of  which  all  forms 
of  matter  are  evolved  and  concreted,  and  give 
this  primal  substance  the  arbitrary  name  of  Mag- 
netism, for  convenience. 


10  Living  by  Natural  Lair. 

"Second:  That  all  matter  is  inspired  and 
governed  by  a  prime  impersonal  consciousness 
or  intelligence  out  of  which  all  conscious  entities 
are  evolved. 

"Third:  That  all  matter  is  in  continual  ac- 
tivity, and  forever  acting  according  to  laws  of 
consciousness. 

"Fourth:  That  all  bodies  of  organized  mat- 
ter are  in  a  continual  state  of  vibration  and  radi- 
ation. 

"Fifth:  That  the  law  of  attraction  and  re- 
pulsion of  matter  is  the  reverse  of  the  theory  of 
Newton,  though  his  mathematics  were  correct. 

"Sixth :  According  to  the  above,  all  matter 
is  in  a  state  of  repulsion,  disintegration  and  radi- 
ation. This  radiating  action  of  matter  may  be 
called  Magnetic  Force. 

"Seventh :  Every  body  of  matter  which  lives 
or  grows,  like  a  plant  or  an  animal,  possesses  a 
vacuum  principle  by  which  it  attracts  and  ab- 
sorbs such  forms  of  magnetism  as  have  an  affin- 
ity for  it.  This  negative  vacuum  power  of  attrac- 
tion we  call  Electricity. 

"Eighth :  The  magnet  of  physics  is  any  body 
of  matter  which  is  deficient  in  some  substance 
which  belongs  to  it,  and  therefore  will  attract 
such  substance  until  the  vacuum  condition 
ceases. 

"Ninth :  The  degrees  of  fineness  of  matter 
between  those  recognized  by  the  chemist  and  the 


Genetics.  11 

basic  substance  or  magnetism  are  practically 
numberless;  hence  there  is  but  one  element  in 
nature. 

"Tenth :  All  phenomena  is  either  magnetic, 
electric,  or  electro-magnetic;  that  is,  matter  is 
either  radiated  from  its  source,  attracted  by  a 
vacuum,  or  circulates  by  affinity  between  positive 
and  negative  bodies. 

"Eleventh:  All  bodies  are  positive  when 
they  radiate  more  than  they  absorb,  and  nega- 
tive when  they  absorb  more  than  they  radiate. 
Among  other  distinctions,  we  find  that  anything 
which  gives  us  a  heating  or  stimulating  effect  is 
magnetic  or  positive,  and  anything  that  gives  us 
a  cooling  or  quieting  effect  is  negative  or  electric. 

"Twelfth:  Every  living  body  radiates  more 
or  less  of  the  finer  forms  of  magnetism  about 
itself,  which  may  reach  to  indefinite  distances 
and  carry  with  them  more  or  less  of  the  con- 
sciousness of  the  body,  as  observed  in  telepathic 
phenomena." 

Prof.  Fowler  was  not  able  to  elaborate  his 
discoveries  before  his  death,  and  it  remained  for 
Prof.  Windsor  to  undertake  the  work  of  giving 
value  to  the  great  discovery,  by  revising  and  ex- 
tending the  science  of  phrenology,— especially  by 
using  the  factors  magnetism  and  electricity.  By 
the  aid  of  these  factors,  Prof.  Windsor  was  also 
able  to  develop  what  is  doubtless  the  greatest 
and  most  complete  system  of  human  science  yet 


12  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

produced,  and  under  the  term  "Vitosophy"  is 
able  to  give  an  orderly  and  logical  arrangement 
and  description  of  the  senses,  temperaments  and 
functions  of  the  human  body.  Under  this  system 
it  is  found  possible  to  understand,  to  train  and 
to  educate  all  the  instincts,  impulses  and  emo- 
tions of  the  human  being,  and  through  them  to 
go  back  to  a  knowledge  and  understanding  of 
Divinity  itself,  with  all  its  plans  and  purposes 
for  the  life  and  relations  of  humanity,  so  far  as 
man  has  a  natural  desire  to  know. 


Study  of  Human  Life.  13 


THE   STUDY  OF  HUMAN  LIFE. 

Man  and  woman  are  the  two  most  important, 
interesting  and  essential  things  in  the  human 
world,  and  their  study  and  understanding  is  the 
most  imperative  of  all  duties.  And  yet,  through 
a  strange  series  of  causes  running  through  thou- 
sands of  years,  the  dominant  races  of  America 
and  Europe  are  mentally  unable  to  take  a  nat- 
ural view  or  a  natural  interest  in  human  study. 

Our  history  in  outline  has  consisted  of  a  vast 
series  of  great  reactions.  The  great  East  Indian 
races,  from  prehistoric  time  down  to  and  in- 
cluding the  Theosophic  Hindoos  of  to-day,  have 
been  distinguished  by  an  excessive  development 
of  the  telepathic  sense,  or  the  psychic  powers  of 
the  brain ;  but  this  has  usually  been  attended  by 
a  corresponding  neglect  of  some  of  the  other 
senses  and  forces  of  the  body,  and  for  that  rea- 
son those  races  have  been  a  failure  in  most  lines 
of  development.  Such  abnormal  philosophy  and 
life  made  a  reaction  inevitable,  and  at  some  pe- 
riod not  definitely  known  the  great  Semetic  race, 
or  system  of  races,  was  developed  upon  the  mar- 
gin of  that  country  and  reached  out  through 
Western  Asia  and  Northern  Africa,  having  for 
its  keynote  the  glorification  of  the  gender  sense. 
This  system  of  philosophy  was  as  opposite  from 


14  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

the  other  as  possible.  Under  it  a  coarse  form  of 
pride  in  manhood  and  womanhood  became  the 
governing-  sentiment.  They  generally  gave  up 
all  exercise  of  the  finer  powers  of  the  telepathic 
sense.  They  assumed  that  the  power  of  generat- 
ing life  was  the  connecting  link  between  human- 
ity and  divinity,  and  they  made  that  power,  with 
the  gender  organism  which  it  employed,  the  foun- 
dation of  their  religion.  This  is  peculiarly  true 
of  the  Hebrew  race,  though  with  it  is  curiously 
blended  many  relics  of  the  still  more  ancient 
and  widespread  sun  worship.  Everything  in  the 
Hebrew  religion  can  be  explained  by  these  two 
keys.  It  was  inevitable,  however,  that  such  a 
coarse  and  narrow  system  should  develop  repul- 
sive practices  and  a  selfish  priesthood ;  and  some 
two  thousand  years  ago  the  dissatisfied  portion 
of  the  Jews,  and  the  peoples  they  influenced,  de- 
veloped another  reaction  in  which  they  went  to 
another  extreme,  and  evolved  the  idea  that  hu- 
manity should  degrade  and  despise  itself  in  or- 
der to  glorify  divinity,  by  giving  it  the  greatest 
possible  contrast  with  itself.  To  this  end  they 
literally  invented  the  idea  of  shame  regarding 
everything  connected  with  the  gender  sense  and 
reproductive  organism.  "We  are  poor,  miser- 
able sinners,"  has  been  the  keynote  of  orthodoxy 
ever  since  Christianity  became  organized,  and  it 
has  been  all  too  successful  in  making  it  seem 
true,  though  it  is  doubtful  if  anyone  could  have 
been  more  astonished  and  disgusted  by  such  a 


Stucty-of  Human  Life.  15 

perversion  of  his  teaching  and  practice  than 
Jesns  himself. 

The  degradation  of  the  gender  sense  was  has- 
tened bj  the  discovery  of  the  idea  that  immacu- 
late conception  was  supernatural,  when  in  fact 
it  is  by  law  of  nature  the  primal  right  of  every 
living  being,  and  nature  tries  to  make  everyone 
regard  human  conception  with  infinite  respect. 
This  disrespect  for  the  gender  sense  has  been  so 
all  absorbing  that  it  has  affected  all  human  life, 
until  it  is  doubtful  if  a  child  is  ever  born  in  a 
Christian  family  that  does  not  betray  the  fact  in 
the  shape  of  its  skull.  This  lack  of  respect  is  the 
one  universal  factor  in  all  the  crimes,  the  cruel- 
ties, the  meannesses,  the  injustices,  the  diseases 
of  society. 

Again,  the  mental  attitude  toward  the  gender 
sense  described  above,  being  so  universal,  has  re- 
acted upon  the  brain  itself — for  reasons  given 
later — until  the  popular  mind  has  become  filled 
with  a  sort  of  mental  strabismus,  so  that  it  is 
really  impossible  for  many  of  the  present  genera- 
tion to  take  a  common-sense  view,  or  feel  a  nor- 
mal interest  in  the  proper  generation,  growth, 
care  and  culture  of  their  own  bodies  or  those  of 
their  children. 

To  the  student  who  is  able  to  look  over  the 
field  of  human  life  with  all  its  vast  and  still 
growing  variety  of  human  miseries,  the  view  is 
appalling,  and  many  sink  under  its  weight  in 
hopeless  pessimism;    but  Vitosophy  is  able  to 


16  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

give  to  man  a  hope,  a  wisdom,  and  a  power  to 
master  and  deal  with  all  human  problems  never 
before  possessed.  Our  hope  lies  in  discovering 
the  law  that  nature  is  always  trying  with  real 
purpose  and  intelligence  to  set  all  wrong  things 
right,  while  wisdom  comes  from  the  discovery  of 
the  prime  factors  of  the  universe,  the  system  of 
sense  organisms,  the  system  of  bodily  tempera- 
ments, the  understanding  of  all  the  instincts, 
impulses  and  attractions  of  the  body,  and  the 
vast  system  of  relationship  between  all  the  parts ; 
while  with  this  new,  tangible  and  scientific 
knowledge  of  all  human  interests,  goes  a  new 
power  to  govern  them  and  control  destiny. 


The  Seven  Senses.  17 


THE  SEVEN  SENSES. 

What  is  knowledge?  I  challenge  any  student 
to  find  a  definition  in  any  other  publication  that 
he  would  venture  to  present  as  a  satisfactory 
answer.  Knowledge  is  the  product  of  the  con- 
scious process  of  some  one  or  more  of  those  seven 
sensory  organisms  through  which  the  universal 
consciousness  (we  may  call  it  Nature  for  short) 
is  concreted  and  formed  into  ideas.  All  knowl- 
edge is  formed  in  that  way.  We  never  get  knowl- 
edge from  books  or  teachers ;  they  can  only  give 
evidence  or  suggestion,  which  must  be  ground  in 
the  crucible  of  our  own  senses  to  become  knowl- 
edge. If  you  tell  a  fact  to  a  person  you  may 
make  him  believe  it,  but  you  cannot  make  him 
know  it  until  you  submit  it  to  one  of  his  sensory 
organisms. 

The  five  intermediate  organisms  of  sensation 
have  long  been  recognized,  and  much  has  been 
studied  and  written  about  them;  but  even  of 
those,  none  have  ever  been  fully  appreciated  or 
understood,  especially  in  their  relationships.  It 
has  remained  for  Prof.  Windsor,  already  re- 
ferred to,  to  discover  the  great  system  of  senses, 
and  many  of  the  wonderful  and  beautiful  laws 
which  govern  them. 

These  seven  senses,  given  in  the  order  of  their 
rate  of  vibration  and  delicacy  of  sensation,  are 
2 


18  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

Gender,  Touch,  Taste,  Hearing,  Sight,  Smell  and 
Clairvoyance,  or  Telepathy.  Each  of  these  senses 
has  a  distinct  organism  composed  of  a  system  of 
glands  or  electro-magnetic  electrodes,  each  ex- 
hibiting different  subtle  forms  of  magnetism  or 
substance  with  its  corresponding  consciousness 
or  intelligence.  At  the  same  time,  these  several 
organisms  lap  upon  and  affect  each  other  with 
an  endless  system  of  involution;  presenting  such 
an  infinitely  elaborate  system  of  real  purpose 
and  design  on  the  part  of  Divine  intelligence  as 
to  cause  the  human  reason  to  lose  itself  in  trying 
to  grasp  such  wisdom,  beauty  and  perfection  of 
design.  In  the  perfect  working  of  the  scale  of 
senses  is  exhibited  all  the  possibilities  and  ex- 
perience of  harmony.  An  imperfection  or  injury 
in  any  one  throws  the  whole  body  into  discord, 
though  instantly  all  nature  combines  to  repair 
the  injury  and  restore  harmony  through  the  joint 
instinctive  action  of  all  the  other  senses. 

Gender.  This  sense  is  given  the  first  place  in 
the  scale  because  its  magnetism  has  the  slowest 
rate  of  vibration  and  its  organism  occupies  the 
lowest  position  in  the  nervous  system.  In  con- 
nection with  the  brain,  the  organ  of  the  seventh 
sense,  it  helps  to  hold  all  the  other  live  senses  in 
health  and  harmony. 

The  primary  function  of  the  gender  sense  is 
reproduction,  and  it  contains  all  the  glands  di- 
rectly involved  in  that  work.  These  generative 
glands  are  divided  by  a  wonderfully  balanced 


The  Seven  Senses.  19 


system  between  the  two  sexes  in  such  a  way  as  to 
form  an  electro-magnetic  circuit;  giving  all  the 
phenomena  of  sex  attraction  and  repulsion.  In 
the  normal  male,  the  glands  of  the  pelvis  and 
groin  are  positive  or  magnetic,  radiating  and 
generous ;  while  his  breast  glands  are  negative  or 
electric,  absorbing  and  responsive.  In  the  fe- 
male body  these  forces  are  reversed,  the  breast 
being  positive  and  radiating,  and  those  of  the 
pelvis  being  negative  and  absorbing.  Besides 
these  primary  glands,  we  find  in  the  mouth  a  sec- 
ondary system  of  glands,  impinging  on  the  taste 
sense,  which  are  so  much  affected  by  the  gender 
sense  that  they  may  be  said  to  belong  to  it.  These 
include  the  lips,  cheeks  and  beard.  These  glands 
are  also  positive  in  the  female  body  and  receptive 
in  the  male,  like  those  of  the  breast.  The  normal 
male,  having  an  electric  mouth,  little  resistant  to 
the  changes  of  the  atmosphere,  is  provided  with 
protection  in  the  form  of  a  non-conductive  beard ; 
while  the  normal  female,  having  a  radiating 
mouth,  has  no  beard,  but  feels  a  fascinating  at- 
traction in  the  beard  of  her  counterpart. 

The  impulse  in  men  and  women  to  bring  the 
lips  and  cheeks  into  contact  is  a  distinct  sex  im- 
pulse, and  is  only  natural  between  opposite  sexes 
above  the  age  of  puberty,  or  between  parents  and 
children, — the  product  of  the  gender  nature. 
Kissing  between  women  or  between  men  is  a  per- 
version of  the  gender  instinct  and  is  repulsive  to 
good  taste.    In  all  sex  contact  with  the  reproduc- 


20  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

tive,  or  with  the  other  glands  of  that  sense,  it  is 
essential  that  both  bodies  should  be  kept  in  the 
most  perfect  health  possible,  for  there  is  no  other 
way  in  which  men  and  women  can  give  to  each 
other  so  much  of  health,  strength,  character  and 
happiness;  or,  on  the  other  hand,  of  so  much  dis- 
ease, degradation  and  misery,  according  to  their 
physical  condition.  Society  ought  in  self-protec- 
tion to  treat  as  a  crime  any  attempt  to  impose  an 
unhealthy  body,  or  one  reeking  with  nicotine,  al- 
cohol or  indigestion  upon  another  in  any  sex  rela- 
tion, by  kissing  or  otherwise.  The  good  or  evil 
effects  of  gender  contact  upon  the  persons  them- 
selves, great  and  grave  as  they  may  be,  are  yet 
secondary  to  their  effects  upon  the  next  genera- 
tion, and  through  that  to  all  the  future  of  human- 
ity. The  factor  of  health  and  purity  in  each 
prospective  parent,  both  before  and  after  concep- 
tion, can  never  be  too  deeply  and  gravely  re- 
garded. 

Many  volumes  have  been  written,  with  more 
or  less  wisdom,  to  teach  the  proper  care  of  this 
sense,  and  I  have  not  space  to  dwell  upon  it. 
Most  of  its  care  depends  upon  proper  blood  sup- 
ply, elimination  of  waste,  magnetic  massage,  etc., 
which  can  be  learned  elsewhere.  A  most  impor- 
tant factor  in  the  health  and  normal  impulse  of 
the  gender  nature,  however,  has  not  before  been 
well  understood,  and  that  is  the  natural  influ- 
ence of  the  magnetic  currents  which  spring  from 


The  Seven  Senses.  21 

the  generative  glands.  In  all  relations  between 
opposite  sexes,  over  whatever  space,  wherever 
there  is  any  mutual  feeling  of  attraction,  subtle 
currents  of  sex  magnetism  spring  from  the  posi- 
tive glands  of  each  sex,  and  are  caught  and  ab- 
sorbed by  the  negative  glands  of  each  other. 
These  currents  share  in  the  health  or  disease  of 
the  body  and  produce  either  a  healthful  or  inju- 
rious effect  accordingly.  The  two  sex  natures 
are  so  constituted  that  they  cannot  be  perfectly 
developed,  or  exist  in  a  perfectly  normal  and 
harmonized  condition,  without  more  or  less  of 
proper  and  healthful  companionship. 

Touch.  The  sense  of  touch,  next  above  gen- 
der in  rate  of  vibration,  has  for  its  organism  all 
the  skin  covering  of  the  body  and  the  lining  of  the 
various  passages  of  the  body.  Its  functions  are 
to  give  certain  kinds  of  knowledge  regarding 
outer  substances,  and  also  to  furnish  depuration 
by  which  the  finer  forms  of  waste  substance  in 
the  body  are  radiated,  such  as  expelled  breath, 
perspiration,  etc.  In  addition,  all  the  outer  skin, 
except  portions  intended  for  contact  like  the 
hands  and  foot  soles,  are  filled  with  a  non-con- 
ductive hair  substance  that  serves  to  insulate  the 
body  from  atmospheric  changes.  What  we  call 
heat  and  cold,  hardness  and  softness,  or  rough- 
ness and  smoothness,  are  not  things,  but  the  con- 
sciousness experienced  by  the  touch  sense.  To 
preserve  these  very  essential  forces  of  the  body 
in  full  health,  vigor  and  enjoy ableness,  the  whole 


22  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

skin  should  always  receive  intelligent  and  re- 
spectful care.  Practically  all  people  fail  to  give 
it  sufficient  exposure  and  contact  with  the  air, 
the  earth,  or  with  water,  though  each  of  these 
may  be  had  in  excess.  During  childhood  espe- 
cially, all  clothing,  footwear  and  bed  covering 
should  be  as  loose,  coarse  and  scanty  as  comfort 
will  permit.  People  with  an  electric  or  cold  skin 
need  a  great  deal  of  nude  contact  with  sun  rays, 
while  magnetic  people  need  less.  Nature  also 
prompts  and  requires  a  great  deal  of  friction  of 
the  skin  to  give  it  natural  vigor  and  magnetic 
force.  The  most  natural  and  effective  method 
is  with  the  person's  own  hands,  or  those  of  a 
healthy  sex  counterpart.  The  natural  law  for 
proper  sun  and  water  bathing  depends  upon  in- 
dividual temperament,  and  will  be  touched  upon 
later. 

Taste.  This  third  in  the  sense  scale  has,  per- 
haps, received  more  attention  than  any  of  the 
others,  for  it  includes  all  problems  of  food  and 
drink.  Its  organism  is  composed  of  the  teeth 
and  glands  in  the  mouth,  and  all  the  glands  em- 
ployed in  digestion.  Its  functions  are  to  select 
the  proper  kinds  and  quantity  of  food  and  drink, 
and  the  proper  times  and  intervals  for  eating  and 
drinking. 

Scientifically  speaking,  food  and  drink  are 
concretions  of  magnetism  which  have  an  affinity 
for  the  living  body  which  consumes  them.  The 
digestive  organism  reduces  these  concretions  to 


The  Seven  Senses.  23 

such  finer  forms  of  magnetism  as  can  be  absorbed 
by  the  living  substance  through  its  electric  pow- 
ers, while  any  portions  which  do  not  have  such 
affinity  are  expelled  through  the  proper  channel 
by  the  law  of  repulsion  of  matter.  The  primal 
function  of  taste,  that  of  selecting  food,  has  never 
been  fully  appreciated  outside  the  school  of  Vit- 
osophy.  It  would  require  a  truer  religious  con- 
ception than  now  prevails  to  appreciate  the  com- 
pleteness and  definiteness  of  the  plans  of  the  uni- 
versal consciousness  for  the  ordering  of  human 
life.  No  two  persons  will  receive  just  the  same 
benefit  from  the  same  combination  of  foods,  and 
there  is  no  source  of  conclusive  knowledge  ex- 
cept in  the  sense  of  the  person  himself.  Over- 
eating is  largely  caused  by  disregard  of  the  fit- 
ness or  affinity  of  foods.  A  common  error  is 
made  in  assuming  that  ease  of  digestion  is  al- 
ways desirable.  The  digestive  organism  requires 
the  same  vigorous  exercise  as  the  muscular  sys- 
tem. The  stomachs  of  people  having  the  mental 
temperament  should  not  be  tried  so  much  as 
those  of  the  vital  or  motive  temperaments.  While 
all  the  sense  organisms  are  subject  to  much  neg- 
lect and  many  abuses,  the  most  common  and  nu- 
merous are  found  in  the  mistreatment  of  the 
taste  sense,  and  I  hope  the  few  notes  here  pre- 
sented upon  this  wide  field  of  nature  will  give  my 
readers  a  new  and  deeper  respect  for  the  divine 
law  as  it  expresses  itself  in  the  problem  of  food. 


24  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

Hearing.  The  organism  which  gives  to  our 
consciousness  all  the  knowledge  it  gets  of  that 
system  of  phenomena  in  vibration  of  substance 
which  we  classify  as  Sound  is  fourth  in  rate  of 
vibration,  and  gives  to  us  the  sense  of  hearing. 
In  human,  and  many  forms  of  animal  life,  hear- 
ing has  a  peculiar  relationship  to  the  taste  sense 
through  the  use  of  the  latter  in  expression  of  con- 
sciousness, and  in  all  relations  of  life  a  sound 
hearing  is  essential  to  the  most  intimate,  delicate 
and  affectionate  communion  and  relationship. 
It  is  always  a  tragedy  where  parents  with  defect- 
ive hearing  have  children,  for  unless  the  natural 
voice  is  heard  they  cannot  think  freely  together. 
It  often  happens  in  case  of  deafness,  as  well  as 
in  cases  of  discord  in  some  other  sense  organisms, 
that  parents  and  children  experience  the  best 
sense  of  relationship  when  depending  solely  upon 
the  telepathic  sense  through  written  correspond- 
ence. 

Music  is  a  term  given  to  those  vibrations  of 
substance  which  give  the  effect  of  pleasing  har- 
mony to  the  hearing  sense.  As  no  two  persons 
are  attuned  just  alike,  so  no  two  persons  get  the 
same  effect  from  any  musical  effort ;  and  no  per- 
son has  the  power  to  give  the  effect  of  music  to 
all  others. 

In  all  cases  people  can  give  or  receive  the 
most  harmonious  results  in  hearing — as  well  as 
with  the  other  senses — in  conjunction  with  peo- 
ple with  complementary  temperaments.     Those 


The  Seven  Senses.  25 

of  magnetic  and  positive  temperaments  find  most 
harmony  in  the  voices  of  electric  people,  and  a 
true  education  in  music  would  teach  how  to  vary 
the  voice  in  order  to  give  harmony,  or  a  musical 
effect  upon  a  person  of  a  given  combination  of 
temperaments.  This  is  also  often  necessary  to 
know  in  ordinary  discussion  or  conversation. 
People  can  often  change  their  influence  from  re- 
pulsion to  attraction  by  adjusting  the  voice  to 
suit  the  temperament  of  another. 

The  possibilities  of  enjoyment  through  the 
sense  of  hearing  have  never  been  fully  appreci- 
ated by  Christian  people.  While  it  is  true  that 
the  highest  possibilities  of  enjoyment  lie  in  hu- 
man relations  through  hearing,  as  in  all  the  sev- 
en senses,  yet  it  is  also  highly  important  that 
children  should  be  taught  to  appreciate  the  meas- 
ureless system  of  harmonies  which  are  offered  to 
our  hearing  by  much  of  the  phenomena  of  nature. 
The  echoes  of  the  mountains,  the  singing  of  birds, 
the  winding  of  the  trees,  the  magnetic  shock  of 
the  clouds,  the  lapping  of  the  waves  and  the 
roaring  of  the  tempest,  are  all  parts  of  the  mu- 
sical consciousness  to  give  happiness  to  the  sense 
of  hearing  and  to  remind  us  of  Divine  reality. 

Sight.  It  is  needless  to  state  the  importance 
of  the  fifth  sense,  for  all  appreciate  its  necessity, 
though  its  comparative  importance  is  in  inverse 
ratio  to  the  development  of  the  telepathic  sense. 
I  will  onlv  endeavor  to  call  attention  to  those 


26  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

functions  and  relations  of  sight  which  are  least 
known. 

The  term  "sight"  belongs  to  that  result  of 
vibration  which  acts  upon  the  consciousness  of 
the  eye.  Its  experience  is  divided  into  light, 
color,  distance  and  form.  Light  and  color  are 
not  things,  but  phases  of  things  which  the  sense 
of  sight  experiences.  They  would  not  exist  or 
be  known  if  there  were  no  eyes. 

Within  the  past  few  years  science  has  begun 
to  recognize — what  telepathic  races  have  known 
for  ages — that  the  organism  of  sight,  when  ope- 
rated with  the  telepathic  sense,  could  be  devel- 
oped so  as  to  recognize  colors  in  more  subtle  and 
ethereal  forms  of  substance.  The  recent  develop- 
ment of  photography  helps  to  establish  the  claim 
that  there  is  no  limit  to  the  possibilities  of  sight 
and  color,  and  in  the  sense  of  beauty. 

As  I  have  said  before,  the  highest  possibilities 
of  delight  and  happiness  for  each  of  the  senses 
are  to  be  found  in  sex  counterpart ;  so,  in  sight, 
nature  prompts  us  to  look  to  the  eyes  of  a  sex 
companion  who  offers  the  greatest  degree  of  har- 
mony to  all  the  senses,  for  the  most  beautiful  col- 
ors and  forms  in  the  world.  Everyone  should  be 
taught  from  childhood  to  cultivate,  through  pure 
blood,  beautiful  and  strong  eyes,  and  to  regard 
them  with  a  grave  respect  and  pride.  It  should 
be  almost  a  disgrace  to  need  glasses  until  elderly 
age  affects  the  focus,  though  eyes  that  are  imper- 
fect must  not  be  neglected. 


Th  e  Seven  Senses.  2 7 

Sight  has  interesting  relations  with  certain 
other  senses,  which  I  will  touch  upon.  Sight  and 
gender  not  only  affect  each  other  strongly,  but 
their  condition  and  development  are  so  related 
that  competent  scientists  can  closely  calculate 
many  facts  regarding  the  gender  nature  and  in- 
dividual fitness  for  reproduction  from  the  size, 
development,  shape,  color  and  expression  of  the 
eyes.  The  very  common  and  still  growing  class 
of  visual  defects  is  a  startling  telltale  of  a  corre- 
sponding undevelopment  and  unfitness  of  the  re- 
production organism,  and  of  a  racial  weakness 
growing  in  American  society,  which  must  last 
through  the  next  generation  at  least.  Every  pair 
of  glasses  worn  by  children  and  young  people  is 
a  grave  indictment  of  the  character  and  intelli- 
gence of  the  parents.  Abuse  of  the  eyes  by  un- 
wise reading  and  study  on  the  part  of  children  is, 
with  rare  exceptions,  but  a  secondary  cause  of 
defects. 

The  taste  sense  is  also  an  ever-acting  medium 
between  the  sight  and  gender  senses,  and  proves 
itself  such  in  various  ways  recognized  by  the 
vitosophist.  What  are  recognized  as  vicious  dis- 
eases of  the  gender  nature  are  notorious  for 
poisoning  the  glands  of  the  mouth,  and  scrofu- 
lous disorders  are  often  conveyed  through  con- 
tact of  the  lips  as  a  result  of  vicious  practices. 

Smell.  This  sense  has  apparently  less  im- 
portance than  any  of  the  others,  and  many  people 
worry  along  through  life  with  little  use  of  it. 


28  Living  by  Natural  Lata  . 

Many  kinds  of  animals  have  it  more  highly  de- 
veloped and  depend  much  more  upon  it.  A  com- 
plete life  must,  however,  have  a  good  smelling 
organism.  Its  rate  of  vibration  is  higher  and  its 
powers  are  more  subtle  than  sight  or  hearing, 
and  with  a  highly  refined  mind  its  perception  of 
odors  is  capable  of  a  high  order  of  enjoyment. 
Its  primary  aim  is  to  assist  or  precede  the  taste 
sense  in  the  selection  of  proper  food  and  drink, 
and  its  organism  is  therefore  interwoven  with 
the  organs  of  taste. 

The  mistreatment  of  the  taste  sense  through 
improper  food  and  other  means  is  the  main  cause 
of  injury  to  the  smell,  and  those  parents  who 
have  been  the  victims  of  that  most  common  and 
baffling  disease,  catarrh,  ought  to  spare  no  care 
in  saving  their  children  from  such  a  dangerous 
cause  of  lifelong  misery. 

Clairvoyance  or  Telepathy.  This  sense  is 
the  highest  of  the  scale,  and  is  the  most  difficult 
to  describe  or  appreciate  from  having  the  finest 
powers  and  functions.  The  Vitosophic  school 
has  not  yet  clearly  determined  whether  the  whole 
brain,  the  cerebellum,  or  some  still  more  limited 
portion  of  the  brain  is  the  real  organism  of  that 
sense.  It  may  be  also  a  question  whether  the 
sense  should  be  applied  to  all  the  conscious  phe- 
nomena of  the  brain,  or  simply  to  the  two  func- 
tions of  sensing  the  divine  consciousness  of  the 
universe,  and  that  of  communing  or  exchanging 
thought  with  other  minds  directly  and  without 


The  Seven  Senses.  29 

the  medium  of  any  of  the  other  senses.  My  own 
judgment  is  to  take  the  broader  view  and  include 
within  its  functions  that  of  serving  as  a  switch- 
board for  all  the  other  senses,  receiving  all  the 
communications  and  complaints  from  the  several 
members,  and  sending  out  orders  and  assistance 
to  each,  according  to  the  judgment  of  the  central 
ego.  The  term  Clairvoyance  is  popularly  applied 
to  the  faculty  of  seeing  things  without  the  aid  of 
the  eyes,  and  that  of  telepathy  to  the  transferring 
of  thought  to  other  persons  through  direct  mag- 
netic radiation.  The  study  of  higher  law,  how- 
ever, leads  to  the  conclusion  that  such  definite 
distinctions  cannot  be  properly  made.  The  other 
writers  in  Vitosophy  prefer  to  use  the  term  clair- 
voyancy,  but  that  has  gained  so  much  popular 
discredit  from  its  misuse  by  ignorant  or  dishon- 
est people  that  for  the  purposes  of  this  work,  at 
least,  I  shall  use  the  more  reputable  term  "tel- 
epathy." 

The  opinion  of  human  society  regarding  the 
possible  poAvers  and  functions  of  this  sense  has 
formed  the  groundwork  of  much  of  human  his- 
tory. It  is  certain  that  many  races  through  un- 
told thousands  of  years,  have  made  more  use  of 
and  placed  more  dependence  upon  this  sense  than 
have  our  modern  European  and  American  races. 
The  free  exercise  of  the  mental  powers  prevented 
the  subjection  of  humanity  to  that  close  organ- 
ization of  society  which  all  modern  orders  of 
priesthood  find  essential  to  their  purposes.     Even 


30  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

in  America  it  has  only  been  within  the  past  two 
decades  that  students  have  dared  or  been  allowed 
freely  to  make  an  open  study  of  psychic  phenom- 
ena, and  even  yet  the  great  majority  of  our  peo- 
ple are  afraid  of  it.  All  the  conservative  forces 
of  society,  religious,  legal,  medical,  educational 
and  social  are  fighting  it  inch  by  inch,  in  the  in- 
stinctive effort  to  maintain  their  control  and 
power  over  the  minds  of  the  people. 

It  is  probable  that  the  highest  development  of 
the  telepathic  sense,  both  in  communication  and 
in  controlling  the  forces  of  nature,  took  place 
among  the  races  of  Asia  several  thousands  of 
years  ago,  when  they  were  growing  and  vigorous, 
and  when  the  great  age  of  sun  worship  was  giv- 
ing way  to  literary  religion.  It  is  now  known 
that  various  races  in  various  parts  of  the  world, 
including  America,  South  Africa,  and  even  Aus- 
tralia, must  have  known  and  exercised  great 
psychic  powers  far  back  in  prehistoric  times,  for 
their  descendants  still  exercise  them,  and  no 
modern  circumstance  would  have  permitted  them 
to  acquire  it.  Now  that  society  is  learning  its 
right  to  think  and  act,  we  are  sure  to  see  a  rapid 
increase  of  popular  interest  in  such  phenomena, 
but,  while  it  is  an  important  and  useful  study,  I 
warn  you  against  certain  dangers.  The  un- 
healthy habits  of  living,  so  general  at  the  present 
time,  make  any  sudden  concentration  of  the  mind 
upon  itself  extremely  unsafe.  If  the  mind  be- 
comes fascinated  with  the  study,  as  many  will,  it 


The  8even  Senses.  31 

is  very  liable  to  become  deranged.  It  should  only 
be  developed  and  exercised  in  harmony  with  all 
the  other  senses  and  forces  of  the  body. 

The  practice  by  many  people  of  making  a 
trade  or  profession  of  clairvoyancy  for  money  as 
a  means  of  living  has  still  another  danger.  The 
conditions  of  trance  or  self-hypnosis  required  to 
develop  such  an  electric  condition  of  the  brain  as 
to  draw  consciousness  from  the  minds  of  their 
patrons  has  a  strong  tendency  to  react  through 
the  spinal  chord  to  the  gender  organism,  and  pro- 
duce both  structural  and  moral  derangement  of 
that  system. 

Until  the  present  generation,  the  finer  and 
higher  powers  of  this  sense  were  persistently  and 
even  savagely  denied  by  all  orthodox  and  con- 
ventional authorities,  to  the  great  hindrance  of 
human  progress ;  but  progressive  science  and  so- 
ciety now  dare  to  study  its  phenomena  and  admit 
some  few  of  its  possibilities.  England  now  has  a 
strong  society  for  psychic  research,  whose  work 
is  the  study  of  the  telepathic  sense,  and  it  is,  per- 
haps, the  most  effective  of  all  present  agencies 
for  human  progress  that  has  yet  been  able  to 
command  the  attention  of  the  reading  public. 


32  Living  by  Natural  Law. 


TEMPERAMENTS. 

When  Prof.  Windsor  analyzed  and  published 
the  system  of  physical  temperaments  possessed 
by  the  human  body,  he  made  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant contributions  to  human  science.  I  am 
indebted  to  Dr.  K.  M.  H.  Blackford,  a  brilliant 
professor  of  the  Windsor  school  of  Vitosophy, 
for  an  outline  of  what  I  shall  present  upon  this 
branch  of  science. 

Temperament  is  a  term  given  to  certain  states 
of  the  body,  expressed  in  color,  temperature, 
form  and  proportion,  which  result  from  the 
preponderance  of  some  elements  in  the  system 
over  certain  other  elements.  The  temperaments 
are  classified  with  reference  to  electro-magnetic, 
anatomical  and  chemical  conditions. 

The  electric  temperament  is  that  in  which  a 
low  degree  of  vibration  prevails.  It  is  distin- 
guished by  gravity,  receptivity,  coolness  and  neg- 
ativeness.  Among  its  features  are  a  hard,  dry, 
dark  skin,  dark,  strong  hair,  dark  hair  or  lashes, 
olive  or  pale  complexion,  and  usually  by  a  long, 
athletic  form  of  body.  It  is  the  more  apt  to  pos- 
sess concentration  of  purpose  and  affections, 
strong  gravity,  drawing  power  and  cohesiveness, 
strong  will,  dignity,  slow  circulation  and  cool 
touch.  Electric  people  live  best  in  a  hot,  dry 
climate,  and  people  of  the  tropics  are  geuerally 


Temperaments.  33 

electric  compared  with  people  of  colder  climates. 
A  hot  and  shining  climate  is  most  magnetic,  and 
an  electric  temperament  will  absorb  rather  than 
antagonize  it. 

The  magnetic  temperament  is  the  counter- 
part of  the  electric,  and  is  shown  by  vibration, 
radiation,  warmth  and  positiveness.  Its  prevail- 
ing marks  are  a  light-colored,  warm,  moist  skin, 
light  colored  hair  and  eyes,  more  tendency  to 
roundness  of  body,  larger  chest  and  more  active 
vital  organs.  Magnetic  people  have  a  larger  pro- 
portion of  optimism,  humor,  vivacity,  cheerful- 
ness and  activity,  though  all  these  are  varied  by 
the  other  temperaments.  People  who  find  them- 
selves best  adapted  to  cold  climates  have  a  gen- 
erally magnetic  temperament,  since  by  generat- 
ing more  magnetism  they  are  better  able  to  bear 
the  absorption  of  a  cold,  electric  atmosphere. 
The  same  general  conditions  attend  the  birds  and 
other  animals  of  the  two  climates. 

These  differences  in  magnetic  attributes  have 
much  to  do  with  all  phases  of  life.  The  more 
magnetic  are  best  fitted  for  some  purposes  and 
least  fitted  for  others.  Their  greater  radiating 
power  carries  with  it  more  generosity,  while  the 
electric  nature  shows  more  responsiveness  and 
gratitude.  Teaching  is  a  giving  out  of  thought, 
and  the  best  teachers  are  magnetic.  Contractors 
and  foremen  in  constructive  work  are  nearly  all 
magnetic.  Those  who  take  the  initiative  in  con- 
structive reform  and  statesmanship  are  usually 


34  Living  by  Natural  Law  . 

magnetic,  while  those  of  critical  and  destructive 
tendencies  are  more  electric.  Magnetic  politi- 
cians drive  the  people  on  by  their  superior  force, 
while  the  electric  draw  the  people  to  them  by 
their  power  of  attraction. 

If  you  carefully  observe  people  of  the  two 
types,  you  will  find  that  they  have  opposite  ef- 
fects upon  you  in  many  ways.  Preachers  or 
public  speakers  of  one  type  may  keep  you  awake, 
and  the  other  type  keep  you  restless  or  drowsy. 
If  you  are  of  a  distinct  type,  you  will  find  that 
all  your  seven  senses  are  most  harmonized  by 
those  of  the  opposite  type,  and  most  irritated  or 
repelled  by  those  of  the  same  type  as  yourself. 
The  liking  or  disliking  of  other  people  is  rarely 
so  much  a  question  of  character  or  reasoning  as 
a  question  of  harmony  in  temperament. 

The  above  rules  apply  most  strongly,  of 
course,  to  distinct  types.  Our  American  people, 
with  their  varied  origin,  occupation,  climates, 
and  especially  from  their  unnatural  habits  of 
living,  present  an  endless  variety  of  combina- 
tions in  electro-magnetic  conditions.  Many  will 
have  a  magnetic  brain  and  an  electric  body,  or 
the  reverse.  Some  have  electric  stomach  but 
magnetic  eyes,  and  so  on.  A  strong,  light-colored 
beard  shows  a  magnetic  gender  nature,  while  the 
same  man  may  have  dark  hair  covering  an  elec- 
tric brain.  These  differences  of  temperament 
offer  a  never-ending  study  of  injterest  and  in- 
struction. 


Temperaments.  35 

chemical  temperaments  are  a  distinction  in 
atomic  structure,  discovered  in  the  liquids  and 
in  the  formation  of  the  skin.  These  cause  gen- 
eral differences  in  temper  and  other  traits,  and 
have  much  to  do  with  attraction  and  repulsion  in 
companionship  and  marriage. 

The  acid  temperament  exists  where  arterial 
blood  predominates.  It  is  marked  by  convexity 
of  features  and  sharpness  of  angles.  The  fore- 
head is  usually  prominent  at  the  eyebrows  and 
retreating  as  it  rises ;  the  nose  Roman,  the  mouth 
prominent,  the  teeth  convex  in  form  and  arrange- 
ment and  sharp,  the  chin  round  and  often  re- 
treating. The  body  is  angular,  with  sharpness  at 
all  angles.  This  temperament  has  usually  a  more 
active  mind  and  vivacious  disposition,  and  also 
more  sharpness  or  asperity  of  manners.  Acidu- 
lous people  average  a  more  active  and  conscious, 
but  a  shorter  life,  and  if  the  chin  is  small  and 
retreating  it  betrays  weak  vital  organs  and  lack 
of  affection. 

The  alkaloid  temperament  exists  where 
lymph  is  in  excess  over  arterial  blood.  It  is 
marked  by  concavity  of  features  and  obliquity  of 
angles.  The  face  is  usually  broad,  with  a  con- 
cave outline,  the  forehead  prominent  and  wide 
at  the  upper  part  and  medium  in  development 
at  the  eyebrows,  the  nose  concave,  the  mouth  re- 
treating, teeth  flat,  the  chin  concave  and  promi- 
nent at  the  point.  The  body  is  round  and  tends 
to  corpulency.    This  type  has  more  vitality  and 


36  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

endurance  (unless  it  fails  at  the  chin),  but  it  is 
often  so  lacking  in  activity  as  to  allow  the  sys- 
tem to  become  clogged  with  disease,  and  is  more 
subject  to  long  and  chronic  ailments.  The 
strongest  and  most  successful  class  of  people 
combine  an  acid  brain  with  an  alkaloid  body. 
This  is  shown  by  a  convex  outline  down  to  the 
point  of  the  nose,  but  with  a  concave,  broad  and 
prominent  chin.  Nearly  all  of  our  great  con- 
structive statesmen,  railroad  and  steamship 
builders,  and  leading  business  men  who  sustain 
a  long  and  successful  life,  are  of  this  compound 
type. 

For  intimate  relationship  of  any  kind,  espe- 
cially for  partnership  or  marriage,  grave  caution 
should  be  exercised  in  joining  with  those  of  the 
same  type,  whether  acid  or  alkaloid,  as  well  as 
with  the  magnetic  or  electric.  The  question  of 
harmony  or  irritation  in  touch  of  the  hands,  the 
voice,  the  sight  of  face  and  in  ideas  of  the  brain, 
must  be  studied.  Deadly  enmities  have  often  no 
other  cause  than  the  contact  of  two  acid  natures. 

The  second  most  vital  reason  for  understand- 
ing the  chemical  temperaments  is  in  choice  of 
food  and  drink.  The  acid  system  requires  a 
larger  proportion  of  sweet  or  alkaloid  foods  and 
a  smaller  portion  of  sour  fruit,  lemonade, 
pickles,  etc.,  while  the  opposite  class  of  foods  and 
drink  is  required  by  the  alkaloid  stomach.  As 
nearly  half  of  the  children  differ  from  their  moth- 
ers  in   type,   these   rules   must   be   considered. 


Temperaments.  37 

Probably  more  children  are  killed  or  have  their 
health  ruined  by  violating  these  rules  than  from 
any  other  cause,  unless  it  is  from  ignoring  the 
electro-magnetic  temperaments  by  making  food 
and  drink  too  hot  or  too  cold. 

The  anatomical  temperaments  present  three 
distinct  types.  The  mental  prevails  where  the 
brain  and  nerves  are  most  active.  The  body  is 
less  adapted  to  hard,  muscular  labor,  and  it 
strongly  taxes  the  digestive  or  nutritive  powers 
of  the  body  to  nourish  the  brain  if  heavy  de- 
mands are  made  upon  it.  Such  persons  incline 
to  mental  and  literary  labor  and  enterprises. 
Their  life  is  more  brilliant,  but  they  are  more 
subject  to  unhealthy  living  and  therefore  are 
more  liable  to  disease  and  early  collapse.  This 
temperament  is  indicated  by  a  large  or  a  highly 
sensitized  head  and  small  body,  a  pyraform  or 
triangular  face,  high,  wide  forehead,  and  usually 
sharp  features.  This  class  are  most  subject  to 
bad  generation  and  usually  have  an  unsound, 
nervous  constitution  that  takes  readily  to  stim- 
ulants and  narcotics.  Parents  have  the  greatest 
possibilities  but  incur  the  greatest  dangers  in 
breeding  this  type  of  children. 

Motive  temperament  exists  when  the  bones 
are  large  and  strong,  and  the  muscular  develop- 
ment is  stronger  than  the  mental  or  nutritive 
system.  People  of  this  type  are  active,  forceful, 
and  best  adapted  to  outdoor  pursuits  and  vigor- 
ous exercise;   also  for  travel  and  transportation 


38  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

business.  The  motive  face  is  square  or  elon- 
gated, and  commonly  has  a  tense  expression. 
Sailors  and  woodsmen  are  usually  of  this  class. 
People  of  this  type  harmonize  best  with  those 
who  are  either  vital  or  mental. 

Vital  temperament  prevails  when  the  nutri- 
tive or  vital  system  is  most  active,  with  large 
lungs,  stomach,  blood  vessels,  and  a  plump,  cor- 
pulent figure.  People  of  this  sort  are  inclined 
to  sedentary  occupation,  and  if  the  brain  is  large 
and  sound  are  able  to  do  an  immense  amount  of 
mental  labor  without  breaking  down.  Such  peo- 
ple, however,  nearly  always  keep  themselves  too 
much  insulated  from  the  earth  until  the  lower 
part  of  the  body  becomes  dormant  and  filled  with 
disease,  which  reacts  into  the  brain  and  vital  or- 
gans. Nearly  all  of  the  vital  type,  in  city  life,  at 
least,  lack  sufficient  character  to  take  enough 
exercise  and  avoid  improper  food  and  stimu- 
lants. 

While  each  of  these  three  temperaments  of- 
fers advantages  for  different  purposes  in  life,  the 
most  satisfactory  conditions  exist,  and  the  most 
complete  style  of  beauty  is  attained  when  all  are 
combined,  so  that  a  person  can  think  highly, 
sense  keenly,  work  strongly  and  live  long.  Peo- 
ple who  live  long,  wise,  useful  and  happy  lives 
are  quite  sure  to  have  this  combination,  and  a 
true  knowledge  of  the  laws  of  generation  will  en- 
able parents  to  do  much  to  give  a  foundation  for 
such  lives  in  their  children. 


The  Human  Virtues.  39 


VIRTUES. 


Virtue  is  a  term  developed  by  the  English 
language  from  a  somewhat  similar  term  used  by 
the  Latins,  and  is  applied  to  various  forms  of  ex- 
pression of  natural  instinct  and  impulse  in  hu- 
man life  which  tend  to  promote  happiness  and 
harmony  between  the  several  sense  organisms  of 
the  individual,  and  still  more  between  different 
individuals.  They  are  not  the  creation  of  any 
religious  schools,  as  unthinking  people  are  made 
to  believe,  but  are  purely  natural  law. 

The  Vitosophic  school  has  adopted  the  fol- 
lowing seven  virtues  as  most  nearly  expressing 
in  proper  order  the  logical  result  of  a  perfect  de- 
velopment of  the  seven  senses,  to-wit:  Natural- 
ness, Purity,  Justice,  Courage,  Truthfulness, 
Beauty  and  Grace.  I  have  not,  however,  attempt- 
ed to  follow  this  order,  but  I  have  noted  such  vir- 
tues and  in  such  manner  as  suits  my  purpose. 
Virtues  are  not  definite  in  number  or  limitation, 
but  are  such  individual  conceptions  of  life  ex- 
pression as  have  a  general  recognition  in  society, 
though  -  individuals  differ  in  detail  as  to  their 
application. 

Naturalness.  This  is  recognized  by  the 
Vitosophic  school  as  the  first  in  order  of  the  vir- 
tues, and  springs  from  a  normal  condition  of  the 
gender  sense  and  a  normal  attitude  of  respect  for 


40  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

it  in  the  mind.  Its  absence  in  society  is  the  pri- 
mal cause  of  embarrassment,  fear  and  distrust  in 
society.  If  naturalness  was  general,  people 
would  not  be  afraid  to  give  full  expression  to 
their  thoughts  in  all  social  discussion,  for  no  one 
would  suspect  them  of  impropriety.  They  would 
also  feel  free  to  look  deeply  into  each  other's 
eyes,  for  they  would  not  be  afraid,  as  most  now 
are,  of  betraying  indelicate  secrets  through  the 
relationship  of  the  eyes  to  the  gender  sense. 
They  would  have  no  hesitation  in  discussing  del- 
icate subjects  of  live  natural  interest,  for  nature 
makes  all  live  things  proper,  and  only  prompts 
us  to  avoid  subjects  which  relate  to  dead  or  waste 
matter  like  filth  or  dead  bodies,  etc.  The  only 
limitation  which  nature  imposes  upon  the  dis- 
cussion of  so-called  delicate  matters  is  to  prompt 
a  correspondingly  delicate,  refined  and  modest 
expression.  Natural  instinct  forbids  everything 
that  is  vulgar,  sportive,  silly  or  immodest  re- 
garding anything  connected  with  the  gender 
sense,  or  any  joking  or  jesting  at  the  expense  of 
sex  companionship;  and  no  people  of  real  com- 
mon sense  ever  indulge  in  it. 

The  certain  effect  of  such  an  attitude  of  soci- 
ety would  be  to  greatly  enlarge  the  scope,  refine- 
ment and  character  of  conversation,  and  develop 
the  power  and  fund  of  language  in  each  indi- 
vidual. We  now  often  see  the  anomaly  of  a  gath- 
ering of  well-informed  and  intelligent  people  of 
both  sexes  talking  each  other  into  a  bored  and 


The  Human  Virtues.  41 

helpless  silence  in  a  few  minutes,  with  no  re- 
source but  to  pull  out  some  worn  and  stupid  card 
game,  which  can  claim  no  virtue  but  to  get  rid  of 
life.  The  whole  world  is  full  of  beautiful  things 
and  thoughts  that  would  give  unending  interest 
and  zest  to  life  if  people  would  only  learn  to 
trust  each  other  with  naturalness  so  as  to  share 
and  enjoy  them.  Naturalness  is  not  only  a  ques- 
tion of  character,  but  one  of  health.  Restraint, 
fear,  and  self-watchfulness  in  expression  is  one 
of  the  great  causes  of  irritation  to  the  nervous 
system.  It  prevents  the  free  flow  of  healthful 
magnetism,  so  essential  in  harmonizing  the  bod- 
ies of  both  men  and  women.  It  always  checks 
natural  breathing,  and  that  checks  digestion,  so 
that  the  whole  system  becomes  involved.  Nat- 
uralness is  not  only  the  first  of  virtues,  but  it  is 
the  essential  foundation  for  all  other  virtues. 

Purity  is  a  term  with  complex  meanings  as 
it  is  often  used.  In  Vitosophy  it  is  given  its 
primitive  meaning  with  reference  to  the  cleanli- 
ness and  health  of  the  skin,  the  organ  of  touch. 
I  shall,  however,  discuss  this  phase  under  the 
heading  of  Cleanliness  and  Bathing. 

As  a  term  in  ethics,  purity  is  almost  entirely 
restricted  to  the  conduct  and  impulses  of  the 
gender  sense  in  sex  companionship  and  relations. 
The  use  of  the  word  itself  in  that  connection  is 
most  embarrassing  to  most  people,  owing  to  the 
false  Christian  ideas  of  gender.  A  natural,  pure 
consciousness  would  not  feel  any  such  embar- 


42  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

rassment,  for  it  would  regard  all  the  objects  and 
phenomena  of  life  with  frankness,  freedom,  and 
a  grave  and  delicate  respect.  Common  sense 
would  also  enlarge  the  meaning  of  purity.  It 
would  not  only  require  a  natural  and  proper  ex- 
ercise of  the  gender  nature,  and  restrict  it  there- 
to (as  nature  really  prompts),  but  it  would  re- 
quire an  intelligent  and  cleanly  care  and  culture 
of  the  gender  sense,  not  only  for  its  effect  upon 
the  character  and  health  of  progeny,  but  because 
any  neglect  of  the  gender  organism  is  bound  to 
react  upon  the  health  and  powers  of  all  the  other 
sense  organisms,  especially  of  the  telepathic 
sense,  or  brain.  It  is  estimated  by  alienists  that 
ninety  per  cent,  of  all  insanity,  and  other  mental 
aberrations,  are  resultant  from  neglect  or  mis- 
treatment of  the  gender  nature.  This  feature  is 
so  vitally  important  that  I  must  give  a  few  sug- 
gestions as  to  the  proper  care  of  this  factor  of 
human  life.  A  moral  conception  and  healthful 
gestation  are  the  first  requirements  of  a  pure 
gender  nature;  but,  with  the  beginning  of  life, 
proper  food,  drink,  exercise,  education  and  com- 
panionship are  constantly  needed  to  give  it  its 
proper  growth  and  constitution.  This  phase  of 
the  problem  extends  the  question  of  purity  to  all 
the  other  organisms. 

Constipation  is  the  greatest  obstacle  to  pur- 
ity. It  might  fairly  be  called  the  foundation  of 
impurity.  The  most  sensitive  nerve  centers  of 
the  gender  organism  in  both  sexes  are  so  situated 


The  HamoAi  Virtues.  43 

as  to  be  crowded,  irritated  and  excited  when  the 
organs  of  elimination  of  waste  matter  are  al- 
lowed to  remain  gorged,  especially  during  hours 
of  sleep.  The  most  immediate  and  certain  pre- 
ventive of  this  is  the  daily  consumption  of  sand 
— another  instinct  in  all  animal  life.  Next  to 
this  is  the  frequent  drinking  of  water,  and  but 
little  of  other  liquids.  Also  a  frequent  and  vig- 
orous massage  of  the  lower  body,  limbs  and  feet. 
The  frequent  bathing  and  rubbing  of  the  soles  of 
the  feet  will  best  help  to  maintain  the  magnetic 
currents  of  the  body.  These  are  only  a  few,  but 
the  most  important,  rules  for  maintaining  a  con- 
dition of  physical  purity  in  the  gender  nature, 
upon  which  purity  of  consciousness  must  mainly 
depend.  It  is  true,  however,  that  even  when  this 
is  attained,  there  remains  the  problem  of  pure 
suggestion  from  companionship  acting  upon 
those  portions  of  the  cerebellum  that  are  con- 
nected with  the  gender  organism  through  the 
spinal  chord.  Pure  companionship  and  pure  lit- 
erature are  a  vital  necessity  of  child  life,  and 
parents  assume  a  fearful  responsibility  and  be- 
come enemies  of  society  when  they  turn  the  life 
culture  of  their  children  over  to  low-lived  serv- 
ants and  dirty  street  hoodlums,  or  let  their  minds 
rot  in  the  miasma  of  the  average  society  novel. 

Morality  is  a  term  applied  to  various  im- 
pulses of  the  brain  as  they  are  expressed  through 
the  various  sensory  organisms,  and  is  most  com- 
monly applied  to  those  of  the  gender  organism. 


44  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

When  these  impulses  are  normal  and  harmonious 
they  are  moral,  according  to  natural  law,  but  are 
immoral  when  they  conflict  with  natural  law,  and 
tend  to  inharmony  in  the  self  or  in  other  mem- 
bers of  society.  A  certain  degree  of  complexity 
is  involved  in  the  study  of  morality,  from  the  fact 
that  our  schools  of  religion  and  ethics  have  at- 
tempted to  establish  many  rules  and  standards 
in  more  or  less  conflict  with  natural  law  and 
common  sense,  thereby  causing  many  people  of 
independent  natures  to  go  to  opposite  extremes 
in  their  efforts  at  rebellion.  This  phase  of  social 
conditions  makes  another  imperative  demand  for 
the  restoration  of  human  respect,  for  all  the  rules 
of  conventional  society  by  which  we  are  gov- 
erned, no  matter  how  false  and  mischievous  some 
of  them  may  be,  are  the  honest  efforts  of  ignor- 
ance to  reach  truth.  All  social  reformers  need  to 
cultivate  more  respect  for  those  opposing  them, 
as  well  as  more  courage  and  patience  in  their 
own  work. 

Justice  is  a  question  of  conduct  to  a  person 
by  others  and  by  a  person  to  others.  The  first 
question  of  justice  to  a  person  is  his  right  to  a 
normal  birth.  When  parents  fail  to  plan  for 
their  progeny  with  a  grave  and  delicate  respect; 
when  they  fail  to  fit  themselves  with  the  most 
perfect  condition  of  health,  character  and  moral- 
ity, they  perpetrate  an  injustice  upon  their  chil- 
dren and  upon  society  which  can  never  be  wholly 
healed  or  atoned  for.    Nor  is  a  person's  life  ever 


The  Human  Virtues.  45 

free  from  the  question  of  justice,  from  conception 
until  death.  The  mother  must  keep  her  health 
in  a  proper  condition  to  give  her  child  a  sound 
constitution,  and  her  mind  in  condition  to  give 
it  the  proper  character  and  intelligence.  And 
the  father  also,  to  escape  causing  injustice,  es- 
pecially through  the  periods  of  gestation  and 
lactation,  must  keep  every  sense  organism  strong, 
clean,  pure  blooded,  generous,  unselfish,  sympa- 
thetic, enjoyable  and  high  minded.  During  that 
period  in  the  life  of  a  child,  the  receptivity  of  the 
mother,  which  manifests  itself  in  hunger  for  af- 
fection, is  peculiarly  increased,  and  the  same  law 
of  nature  causes  a  correspondingly  increased 
current  of  magnetism  to  flow  from  the  father  to 
give  the  necessary  growth  to  the  child.  The  man 
who  at  such  a  time  allows  himself  to  be  sodden 
with  nicotine,  alcohol  or  other  impurities,  poi- 
ons  and  weakens  both  mother  and  child — a  con- 
stantly criminal  injustice. 

And  all  through  the  life  that  follows  between 
the  child  and  its  parents,  the  question  of  justice 
enters  every  phase  and  action.  What  the  parents 
have  received  from  their  parents  in  substance, 
protection,  education  and  affection,  nature  re- 
quires them  to  repay  in  kind  to  their  own  prog- 
eny. This  constant  law  of  repaying  to  the  future 
for  what  we  have  received  from  the  past  is  like 
an  endless  series  of  eccentric  circles.  Again,  the 
seven  senses  demand,  each  for  itself,  its  proper 
and  appropriate  share  of  just  care,  culture  and 


46  Living  by  Natural  Laiv. 

education;  and  neither  one  can  be  injured  with- 
out injury  and  injustice  to  all. 

The  denial  of  any  right  is  itself  an  injustice. 
The  first  rights  of  a  child  after  birth  are  health, 
comfort  and  enjoyment.  Proper  food  and  other 
conditions  of  life  are  the  basis  of  such  justice. 
Then  education  demands  all  the  proper  forms  of 
training,  suggestion  and  advice  to  carry  the  child 
on  to  maturity.  Since  the  parents  and  teachers 
of  the  present  generation  have  not  themselves 
had  the  opportunity  for  a  rational  education,  and 
are  not,  as  a  rule,  competent  to  teach  their  chil- 
dren the  most  vital  knowledge,  they  must,  in  or- 
der to  be  just,  apply  to  the  masters  of  phrenology 
and  vitosophy  for  instruction  in  the  nature,  the 
dangers,  the  capacities  and  opportunities  of  the 
child.  There  are  probably  none  of  us  but  would 
have  gained  stronger  constitutions,  greater  suc- 
cess, greater  usefulness  and  higher  happiness 
had  our  parents  treated  us  with  justice  upon 
that  point  alone. 

The  next  great  demand  for  justice  in  the  life 
of  a  child  is  that  of  respect.  Some  exceptions 
there  may  be,  but  how  many  have  not  felt  the 
shadow  of  a  failure  on  the  part  of  parents,  as 
well  as  society,  to  recognize  and  respect  the  di- 
vine essence  in  his  child  consciousness?  Every 
man,  woman  and  child  on  earth  contains  an  indi- 
vi sable  share  of  all  divinity,  and  has  an  inalien- 
able right  to  as  much  respect  as  he  can  appreci- 
ate.   Justice  to  ourselves  requires  that  we  should 


The  Human  Yirtues.  47 

demand  respect  from  all,  and  justice  to  others 
requires  that  we  should  give  it  likewise.  Final 
justice  in  society  will  result  as  the  laws  of  na- 
ture become  known.  Society  is  now  unjust  from 
sheer  ignorance  of  natural  law.  What  will  the 
attitude  of  society  be  when  it  recognizes  the  fact 
that  itself  is  partly  responsible  for  every  fault  of 
every  individual,  and  that  every  faulty  person 
is  his  own  victim  and  the  victim  of  bad  birth  or 
bad  education? 

Courage  is  the  ability  on  the  part  of  the  per- 
sonal consciousness  to  enforce  positive  yet  judi- 
cious action  on  the  part  of  each  of  the  members 
and  senses  of  the  body  in  meeting  danger  from 
contact  with  all  other  substances  and  forces  of 
the  universe.  The  science  of  phrenology  recog- 
nizes the  organ  of  caution  and  teaches  how  to 
cultivate  it  when  needed,  and  how  to  avoid  its 
excess.  Caution  should  not  be  confounded  with 
cowardice.  When  combined  with  positive  and 
motive  impulses,  it  is  a  large  factor  in  the  wis- 
dom of  action.  Normal  caution  does  not  lead 
one  to  shirk  or  dodge  danger,  but  to  meet  it  with 
such  instinctive  calculation  as  will  best  promote 
success.  That  part  of  the  head  crown  which  is 
classed  as  the  organ  of  caution  lies  adjoining  and 
just  below  that  of  conscientiousness,  and  the  two 
are  associated  in  character.  A  normal  develop- 
ment makes  rational  courage  instinctive ;  a  large 
development  tends  to  timidity,  and,  if  joined  to 
deficient  conscientiousness,  causes  great  danger 


48  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

of  cowardice,  meanness,  falsehood  and  dishon- 
esty; while  deficient  development  tends  to  reck- 
lessness and  imprudence.  Now,  it  is  well  known 
by  scientists  that  such  imperfections  in  caution 
— as  well  as  in  all  the  organs  of  the  brain — can 
be  improved  in  shape  and  in  resulting  conduct  if 
they  are  pointed  out  in  childhood  and  intelli- 
gently cultivated. 

Charity  is  a  sentiment,  the  lack  of  which 
has  been  the  cause  of  an  untold  world  of  crime 
and  suffering.  Few  things  are  more  essential  in 
social  reform  than  a  knowledge  of  its  principles. 
Real  charity  is  an  instinctive  recognition  of  the 
law  of  nature  that  no  one  is  wholly  responsible 
for  any  fault,  error  or  defect,  while  society  does 
have  a  share  in  all  such  responsibility,  save  in 
rare  cases  of  accident.  While  unnatural  living 
and  false  suggestions  have  much  to  do  with  our 
imperfections,  our  fundamental  defects  spring 
from  an  ignorant  and  unnatural  generation,  and 
by  inheritance  from  imperfect  parents  who  were 
themselves  the  victims  of  former  errors  and  false 
ideas.  Each  life  is  the  product  of  society,  acting 
through  parents  and  suggestors.  It  can  never 
wholly  escape  the  errors  of  society,  though  na- 
ture is  always  trying  to  heal  its  results,  and 
therefore  society  is  responsible  for  each  individ- 
ual fault  and  weakness  and  cannot  be  just  with- 
out being  charitable.  The  highest  and  finest 
charity  is  phenomena  of  the  telepathic  sense, 
involving  the  egos  of  the  subject  and  object,  and 


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The  Human  Virtue*.  49 


lays  the  foundation  for  sympathy  and  generosity. 
Neglect  or  ignorance  of  its  deeper  significance 
has  caused  the  term  to  be  restricted  to  mere  alms- 
giving, which  is  rather  a  crude  expression  of 
generosity. 

Sympathy.  The  impingement  of  charity 
upon  generosity  presents  a  phase  of  mental  ex- 
pression that  is  a  novel  instance  of  something 
most  difficult  to  define,  yet  which  is  most  clearly 
and  generally  understood.  It  may  be  described 
as  the  product  of  currents  of  magnetism  which 
are  excited  in  the  brain  and  other  organisms  of 
the  body,  and  flow  outward  toward  the  object  of 
sympathy  in  an  instinctive  effort  to  repair  the 
loss  which  has  been  suffered.  When  it  is  intel- 
ligently or  naturally  given  in  a  case  of  great 
need,  it  can  be  a  most  powerful  and  interesting 
factor  in  giving  physical  stimulus,  as  well  as  re- 
lief, comfort  and  harmony  to  the  mind.  Sym- 
pathy, however,  requires  the  balance  wheel  of 
justice  for  the  protection  of  both  giver  and  re- 
ceiver. When  third  parties  are  involved,  sym- 
pathy for  one  has  its  danger  of  causing  prejudice 
against  others  until  the  sympathy  is  spoiled  by 
reaction  upon  the  giver.  Many  reformers  and 
public  men  wreck  their  good  intentions  and  use- 
fulness upon  the  rock  of  unbalanced  sympathy. 

Generosity.  This  virtue  is  the  logical  se- 
quence of  charity  and  sympathy.  It  is  not  an  ab- 
straction. It  is  a  term  given  to  a  class  of  phe- 
nomena wherein  certain  currents  of  magnetism 

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50  Living  by  Natural  Lair. 

flow  from  one  body  to  another.  We  apply  the 
term  mainly  to  social  relations  in  which  the  giver 
is,  for  the  time  being,  at  least,  magnetic,  and  the 
receiver  is  electric.  The  gift  may  consist  of  an 
object  possessed  by  the  giver  and  desired  by  the 
receiver,  that  is  propelled  by  a  radiating  impulse 
of  the  telepathic  sense,  or  it  may  consist  of  mag- 
netism radiated  from  some  organism  of  the  body 
and  possessing  the  power  of  giving  substance, 
strength  and  enjoyment  to  the  receiver.  Gener- 
osity is  primarily  an  impulse  of  those  of  magnetic 
temperament,  and  is  also  in  one  sense  of  the 
word  a  masculine  impulse.  The  reciprocal  of 
generosity  is  gratitude,  and  while  the  primal  and 
major  instinct  of  magnetic  people  is  to  be  gener- 
ous, that  of  electric  people  is  to  be  grateful. 
While  the  former  desire  only  gratitude  for  their 
gifts,  the  latter  desire  gifts  with  the  privilege  of 
repayment  in  such  form  as  shall  give  satisfac- 
tion, either  in  substantial  or  psychic  form. 

Selfishness  is  a  perverted  condition  of  either 
the  generous  magnetic  or  grateful  electric  na- 
ture. In  either  it  may  reach  the  most  extreme 
and  frightful  forms  of  destruction.  The  seducer, 
with  his  mad,  abnormal  impulse  to  give  himself 
without  regard  to  the  honor  or  life  of  the  object 
of  his  impulse,  and  the  robber  who  takes  from 
people  with  an  equal  disregard  for  the  life  or 
rights  of  his  victim,  are  well-marked  types  of  the 
two  classes.  The  above  paragraph,  while  too 
brief,  should  greatly  assist  any  good  observer  to 


The  Human  Virtues.  51 

analyze  and  understand  the  character  and  con- 
duct of  his  companions.  I  should  further  add 
that  any  good  expert  should  be  able  to  warn 
parents  of  any  tendency  of  a  child  to  abnormal 
and  dangerous  conduct  upon  those  lines. 

Self  Eespect.  I  have  elsewhere  called  at- 
tention to  the  lack  of  self-respect  as  being  a  vice 
or  defect  notoriously  general  in  the  United 
States.  While  the  primal  cause  dates  back  to 
the  origin  of  the  dogma  of  the  "Fall  of  Adam," 
and  the  loss  thereby  of  most  of  his  divine  attri- 
butes by  humanity,  and  that  any  claim  to  a  share 
in  divine  favors  must  be  made  through  certain 
limited  agencies,  we  do  not  have  even  the  coun- 
teracting influence  of  respect  for  government, 
for  officials  and  for  class,  that  our  English  cou- 
sins boast.  The  large  poor  class  of  England — 
those  who  have  nobody  to  look  down  upon  and  no 
hope  of  sharing  in  the  government — are  probably 
lower  in  self-respect  or  individual  pride  than  any 
class  of  our  own  people.  When  our  nation  and 
race  was  formed  out  of  reaction  from  the  govern- 
ment, customs  and  ideas  of  the  British  people, 
all  English  ideas  of  self-respect  were  dropped  in 
more  or  less  degree,  and  the  only  gain  acquired 
was  what  came  from  the  American  keynote  of 
"equality."  The  main  resource,  however,  of  our 
people,  has  been  the  natural  instinct  for  dignity, 
pride  and  self-respect,  and  the  fact  that  nature 
usually  gives  a  child  more  than  what  is  possessed 


52  Living  by  Natural  Lair. 

by  its  parents.  A  normal  child  instinctively  re- 
spects both  himself  and  other  people,  but  the  log- 
ical result  of  nearly  all  of  our  social  and  relig- 
ious influences  has  been  to  break  down  self-re- 
spect among  children  and  keep  it  down  among 
adults.  From  the  earliest  consciousness  most  of 
our  children  are  treated  with  contempt,  ridicule, 
punishment,  snubbing  and  distrust,  or  else  as 
mere  playthings  and  footballs.  It  has  always 
been  "orthodox"  to  "humble  the  pride"  of  a  child 
and  break  it  down,  when,  in  fact,  pride  is  often 
its  greatest  virtue  and  surest  safeguard  against 
vice  and  dishonor.  Pride,  dignity  and  self-re- 
spect are  but  varying  expressions  for  the  same 
instinctive  consciousness  of  partnership  in  the 
universal  intelligence.  Its  phrenologic  seat, 
classed  as  dignity,  is  in  the  back  crown  of  the 
head,  and  very  few  Americans  of  English  stock 
have  it  well  developed.  Such  a  lack  is  a  most 
common  source  of  weakness  and  failure.  Many 
men  lack  no  other  essential  to  achieve  great  suc- 
cess or  fame,  but  always  fall  short  for  lack  of 
dignity.  The  immediate  and  most  vital  cause  of 
this  lack  and  failing  lies  in  the  almost  universal 
disrespect  by  parents  of  the  gender  sense  and 
the  phenomena  of  generation.  No  parent  can 
begin  soon  enough  to  cultivate  in  his  own  mind 
and  that  of  his  counterpart  a  grave,  refined  and 
dignified  feeling  for  those  forces,  instincts  and 
powers  of  his  gender  nature,  which  alone  can  give 
immortality  to  life.     He  should  resent  as  (lis- 


The  Human  Virtues.  53 

honor  any  attempt  to  jest  or  trifle  with  his  sense 
of  manhood  or  his  social  relations. 

Vanity,  or  self-conceit,  is  a  distortion  of  dig- 
nity and  usually  goes  with  a  lack  of  conscien- 
tiousness, which  is  an  organ  of  the  brain  border- 
ing upon  dignity. 

It  would  be  startling  to  see  all  at  once  how 
the  lack  of  self-respect  affects  the  whole  life  of 
the  individual.  True  respect  would  guard  the 
welfare  of  all  the  sense  organisms.  It  would 
keep  every  faculty  in  the  finest  and  purest  condi- 
tion ;  it  would  not  rest  with  any  illness,  ache  or 
pain;  it  would  not  submit  to  any  abuse,  injus- 
tice or  indignity ;  it  would  exert  all  of  its  powers 
to  make  itself  strong  and  useful  in  the  world. 

As  we  develop  this  idea,  we  discover  that  self- 
respect  carries  with  it  respect  for  all  others. 
Feeling  itself  sprung  from  the  Universal  Intelli- 
gence, it  recognizes  all  humanity  as  coming  from 
the  same  source.  Being  inseparable  from  jus- 
tice, it  instinctively  extends  to  all  others  what- 
ever it  claims  for  itself. 

It  is  the  lack  of  this  simple  and  rational  prin- 
ciple of  synthetic  philosophy  that  has  been  re- 
sponsible for  all  the  wars  and  other  crimes  of  his- 
tory— in  part,  at  least.  Hoav  could  there  be  war 
between  respecting  peoples?  How  could  the  fan- 
aticism of  witchcraft,  which  destroyed  so  many 
millions  in  Europe,  have  ever  gained  a  foothold  ? 
How   could  those  religious  wars  and  quarrels 


54  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

which  have  destroyed  hundreds  of  millions  ever 
have  sprung  among  respecting  people? 

We  now  have  presented  in  the  southern  states 
of  our  country  a  most  ominous  and  appalling 
condition  of  race  conflict  which  has  no  other  ba- 
sis than  lack  of  human  respect — an  outcome  of 
religious  superstition.  The  brutal  and  stupid 
legend  of  the  curse  of  Ham  was  cultivated  by 
selfish  interests  as  an  excuse  for  slavery,  until  the 
growing  instinct  of  humanity  wiped  the  name  of 
it  out  in  blood  upon  the  battlefields  of  the  South. 
But  slavery's  fundamental  idea  of  human  con- 
tempt is  rampant  as  ever  in  that  section,  and 
the  logical  effect  of  degrading  the  objects  of  their 
contempt  is  now  reacting  with  the  curse  of  fear 
and  fanatical  brutality  upon  the  white  people.  I 
use  these  terms  advisedly,  for  the  great  schools 
of  Hampton  and  Tuskegee  show  the  true  solution 
clearly  to  any  who  have  eyes  to  see.  The  key- 
notes of  Booker  Washington  at  Tuskegee  are  self- 
respect  and  a  sensible  education,  and  of  the  thou- 
sands of  his  graduates  none  have  ever  been  crim- 
inals nor  convicted  of  crime.  Could  the  South- 
ern people  drop  their  unnatural  ideas,  cultivate 
a  natural  respect  for  humanity,  and  institute  a 
general  system  of  sensible  and  industrial  educa- 
tion for  both  races,  they  would  have  a  certain 
solution,  and  the  only  one  that  can  ever  restore 
peace  and  safety  to  their  land. 

Truthfulness  is  such  expression  of  con- 
sciousness as  will   present   correct  pictures   of 


The  Human  Virtues.  55 

facts  and  phenomena  to  the  consciousness  of  an- 
other. As  our  consciousness  is  an  indivisible 
part  of  the  divine  intelligence,  so  is  our  truthful 
picturing  a  part  of  the  universal  instinct  for  cor- 
rectness. To  speak  truth  is  the  primal  instinct 
of  every  normal  brain,  and  it  is  a  serious  slander 
to  say— as  so  many  do— that  it  is  natural  for 
children  to  lie.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is  often 
true  that  nature  lies.  It  may  tell  us  that  a  cer- 
tain kind  of  flower  has  a  certain  form  or  color, 
when  we  know  that  it  has  not;  it  may  tell  us  that 
a  pole  standing  in  the  water  has  an  angle  when 
we  know  that  it  has  not ;  it  may  tell  us  that  a  cer- 
tain object  is  above  the  horizon  when  we  know  it 
is  not,  and  so  on  everywhere.  It  is  the  same  in 
human  life.  As  nature  adjusts  its  pictures  to 
meet  distracting  or  abnormal  conditions,  so  it 
may  be  naturarand  proper  at  times  to  refuse  to 
give  a  correct  picture,  or  even  to  give  a  false  pic- 
ture of  facts  that  would  cause  injury  and  injus- 
tice to  others,  or  even  a  useless  injury  to  self. 
When  the  robber  demanded  to  know  the  hiding 
place  of  a  treasure,  his  victim  was  justified  by  the 
law  of  nature  when  he  threw  the  robber  off  on 
a  false  direction  and  saved  himself  and  the  in- 
terests of  his  employer.  As  nature  follows  no 
rules  under  abnormal  conditions,  but  always 
makes  the  best  of  circumstances,  while  keeping 
as  near  to  truth  as  practicable,  so  the  natural 
man  must  stand  upon  his  own  judgment  and  not 
sacrifice  some  greater  law  of  nature  to  preserve 


56  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

the  literal  form  of  truth.  I  would  not,  however, 
be  suspected  of  regarding  such  variations  lightly. 
Nature  never  makes  anything  untrue  to  its  type 
without  some  loss  of  power  or  virtue,  nor  can  a 
man  tell  any  lie  without  weakening  himself. 

Beauty  is  considered  such  an  important  fac- 
tor in  human  life  by  the  Vitosophic  school  as  to 
be  classed  among  the  virtues.  It  is  not  a  thing, 
but  the  conception  of  pleasing  harmony  experi- 
enced by  the  eye  of  the  beholder  in  color,  form 
and  motion.  Beauty  does  not  exist  in  the  object, 
but  in  the  consciousness  of  the  observer.  There 
would  be  no  beauty  if  there  were  no  eyes  which 
could  carry  certain  impressions  to  the  brain. 
Nothing  is  beautiful  to  every  eye,  and  no  two 
persons  get  the  same  sensation  from  the  same  ob- 
ject. The  sense  of  beauty  is,  however,  a  definite 
part  of  the  Divine  plan  for  human  life,  for  it 
gives  the  feeling  of  enjoyment  experienced  by  the 
organism  of  sight. 

The  strongest  experience  of  beauty  is  given 
to  sex  attraction.  The  eyes,  which  are  closely 
connected  by  magnetic  currents  with  the  gender 
nature,  are  gifted  with  the  richest  coloring  which 
the  mind  can  appreciate,  though  the  feeling  of 
beauty  which  they  give  depends  upon  the  mutual 
attraction  of  the  two  persons,  the  healthful  con- 
dition of  the  body  which  encloses  the  objective 
eyes,  and  the  consciousness  of  the  telepathic 
sense  behind  them.  The  form  of  the  body  and 
face  of  a  sex  counterpart  is  also  an  important  fac- 


The  Humcni  Virtues.  57 

tor  in  harmonizing  companionship  and  relation- 
ship, and  is  usually  greater  when  one  is  electric 
and  the  other  magnetic ;  when  one  is  acid  and  the 
other  alkaloid,  and  also  when  one  has  a  distinct- 
ly mental  temperament  and  the  other  is  motive 
or  vital.  Motion  also  adds  to  the  sense  of  beauty, 
and  in  this  factor  the  laws  of  opposites  continue. 
Angular  and  rounded  figures  give  each  other  the 
sight  of  most  beautiful  and  graceful  motion. 

It  is  generally  true  that  the  most  beautiful 
people  are  those  who  have  all  their  sense  organ- 
isms healthily  and  harmoniously  developed,  and 
it  therefore  becomes  the  privilege  and  duty  of 
everyone  to  cultivate  in  self  and  in  progeny  the 
highest  possible  degree  of  beauty  in  complexion, 
form  and  movement.  In  doing  this,  it  must  be 
remembered — what  too  few  realize — that  beauty 
in  color  or  complexion  comes  not  from  water, 
soap  and  paint  in  any  large  degree,  but  from  the 
richness  and  purity  of  blood  within  the  skin  and 
eyes.  Beauty  in  motion  also  comes  from  the  in- 
stinct to  give  pleasure,  with  dignity  and  charac- 
ter as  a  background,  rather  than  from  educated 
manners. 

In  order  that  society  may  feel  and  give  to 
each  other  the  highest  enjoyment  of  beauty  in 
companionship,  it  is  indispensable  that  the  pre- 
vailing social  and  religious  ideas  regarding  gen- 
der phenomena  and  relations  shall  be  greatly  re- 
formed. People  must  be  able  to  let  their  eyes 
rest  freely  and  frankly  upon  each  other,  showing 


58  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

a  confidence  in  themselves  and  a  respect  for  each 
other  that  will  not  permit  a  doubt  to  be  felt. 
This  would  necessarily  do  away  with  all  selfish- 
ness in  social  relations,  and  allow  the  natural 
generous  and  grateful  impulses  to  assert  them- 
selves. 

I  consider  the  systematic  cultivation  of  per- 
sonal beauty,  through  all  of  life,  so  important 
that  I  will  devote  a  space  to  the  laws  and  im- 
pulses of  nature  to  that  end.  The  cultivation  of 
beauty  in  a  new  life  cannot  begin  too  soon.  The 
groundwork  of  beauty  or  ugliness  is  established 
in  conception  and  gestation,  but  every  after  influ- 
ence counts  in  either  correcting  or  aggravating 
imperfections.  Few  things  develop  beauty,  and 
with  it  moral  character,  so  much  in  children  as 
the  practice  of  encouraging  them  from  infancy  to 
appreciate,  cultivate  and  enjoy  a  beautiful  form 
and  color  in  every  part  of  the  body.  It  is  essen- 
tial that  both  parents  should  join  in  cultivating 
this  sense  in  all  their  children,  keeping  them 
nude  as  possible  in  their  own  family  circle,  al- 
ways treating  the  idea  of  nudity  with  perfect  re- 
finement and  delicacy,  as  well  as  freedom  and 
purity  of  thought  and  expression.  They  should 
also  be  taught  to  give  themselves  a  thorough  and 
systematic  rubbing  with  their  hands,  especially 
of  the  abdomen,  in  front  of  a  mirror,  so  that  they 
can  enjoy  the  beauty  of  motion  while  stimulating 
all  the  healthful  magnetic  forces;  for,  like  color 
and  form,  the  human  body  also  expresses   the 


The  Human  Virtues.  59 

very  highest  order  of  beauty  and  grace  in  mo- 
tion. This  free  rubbing  process  will  also  serve 
to  correct  any  imperfections  in  shape  and  devel- 
opment of  body,  limbs  and  face  to  a  very  large 
degree,  while  at  the  same  time  it  will  replace  any 
internal  organs  that  may  be  dislocated,  a  con- 
dition that  is  very  general  among  men  and  al- 
most universal  among  women  in  our  urban  life. 

This  course  of  culture  is  also  the  most  effect- 
ive method  of  developing  normal  moral  ideas, 
as  it  frees  the  minds  of  both  parents  and  children 
from  all  embarrassment  and  impurity  in  regard 
to  the  gender  nature,  and  will  cause  a  greater 
freedom  and  power  of  expression  in  conversation 
than  we  now  often  find.  Most  people  have  as  yet 
only  got  over  their  embarrassing  ideas  enough  to 
appreciate  the  beauty  of  an  unconscious  infant; 
yet  with  the  system  of  culture  that  I  have  out- 
lined the  bodies  of  both  sexes  would  develop  in 
all  attributes  of  beauty  to  the  age  of  thirty  or 
forty  in  our  American  race.  And  when  this  cus- 
tom becomes  generally  adopted,  as  it  will  in  time 
— for  nature  prompts  it — society  will  discover 
that  beauty  is  no  small  factor  in  human  char- 
acter. 

Happiness.  It  may  be  novel  to  class  happi- 
ness among  virtues,  but  a  study  of  its  nature 
and  sources  will  not  leave  such  an  assumption 
far-fetched.  It  is  too  generally  supposed  that  it 
is  something  to  be  sought  after  as  an  end  in  life. 
On  the  contrary,  happiness  is  made  by  express- 


60  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

ing  all  the  powers  of  self,  with  a  harmonious  re- 
lationship of  all  parts,  toward  high  and  broad 
purposes  for  the  benefit  of  society,  and  by  the 
projection  of  self  throughout  the  future  by  the 
power  of  re-creation. 

There  is  no  dividing  line  between  happiness 
and  enjoyment,  though  the  latter  term  is  usually 
given  a  broader  meaning  and  might  best  be  de- 
fined as  the  conscious  recognition  of  a  healthful 
and  harmonious  vibration  in  any  of  the  seven 
senses.  There  is  certainly  none  outside  of  these 
sources.  The  popular  sense  would  probably  limit 
the  term  happiness  to  the  more  intellectual  ex- 
pressions of  enjoyment,  and  to  the  satisfying 
experience  of  family  and  social  relations. 

Whatever  definition  is  accepted,  there  can  be 
no  question  that  the  happiness  and  enjoyment  of 
everyone  could  be  greatly  increased  and  widened 
by  a  correct  sense  education.  This,  first  of  all, 
could  and  should  lead  to  the  abolition  of  all  fear 
— the  greatest  enemy  of  happiness.  As  Dr. 
Blackford  says  of  herself  "I  have  lost  all  fear. 
I  know  how  to  avoid  giving  anyone  cause  to  in- 
jure me.  I  understand  myself  and  my  surround- 
ings so  as  to  keep  most  free  from  danger;  and 
when  I  do  meet  with  a  problem  that  I  cannot  see 
through,  I  simply  trust  and  move  as  my  instinct 
dictates." 

Happiness  or  enjoyment,  health,  unselfish- 
ness and  optimism,  all  naturally  go  together. 
Self-respect  also  aids  optimism  to  destroy  fear 


The  Human  Virtues.  61 

and  create  happiness.  Pessimism,  on  the  other 
hand,  is  the  child  of  fear,  distrust  and  contempt, 
and  is  the  enemy  of  happiness.  The  affinity  of 
pessimism,  indigestion  and  bad  temper  affords  a 
popular  jest. 

Enjoyment  at  the  expense  of  others  is  a  per- 
version of  consciousness,  discordant  and  disap- 
pointing; yet  it  is  one  of  the  commonest  and 
meanest  of  vices,  and  springs  from  that  same 
lack  of  human  respect  to  which  I  have  so  often 
referred. 

While  I  offer  happiness  as  the  last,  and,  I 
trust,  a  fitting  close  to  the  list  of  virtues  for  illus- 
trating my  work,  I  feel  that  the  possibilities  of 
human  virtue  have  no  limitations,  no  number  and 
no  end. 


G2  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

BAD  HABITS. 

The  problem  of  bad  habits,  their  causes,  their 
significance  and  their  remedies,  form  a  serious 
chapter  in  any  philosophic  study  of  human  life. 
It  is  doubtful  if  in  any  other  race  bad  habits  are 
so  numerous,  so  general  or  so  destructive  as  in 
our  own.  What  constitutes  a  bad  habit?  Prop- 
erly speaking,  according  to  the  popular  use  of 
words,  a  bad  habit  is  some  form  of  conduct  or 
treatment  which  causes  an  injury  to  self  or  oth- 
ers. To  speak  more  deeply,  it  is  the  habitual  ex- 
ercise of  some  one  of  the  sense  organisms,  con- 
trary to  natural  impulse,  so  as  to  cause  dis- 
cord in  the  individual  life  or  in  society.  All  the 
sense  organisms  may  be  habitually  subjected  to 
injurious  exercise  by  unnatural  impulse.  In 
each  case  the  mind  is,  or  in  time  comes  to  be,  ob- 
tuse, and,  through  the  tendency  of  nature  to  ad- 
just all  parts  of  the  body  to  its  habitual  life,  the 
difficulty  of  reform  or  correction  grows  steadily 
stronger.  Many  children  are  born  with  some  or- 
ganisms so  imperfect  as  to  give  discordant  im- 
pulses from  the  start ;  and  such  a  condition  calls 
for  unusual  wisdom  on  the  part  of  parents  in 
giving  food  and  other  treatment  in  such  manner 
as  to  develop  a  natural  and  harmonious  system 
of  senses. 

Popular  opinion  gives  first  place  among  bad 
habits  to  the  use  of  alcoholic  drinks.  This  habit 
is  not  natural,  but  springs  from  an  unnatural 


Bad  Habits.  63 

condition  of  the  taste  sense,  caused  by  improper 
food  and  drink,  or  by  lack  of  proper  elimination 
of  waste  matter  from  the  system.  Improper  food 
tends  to  excessive  consumption,  and  that  pro- 
duces an  excess  of  magnetism  and  vibration.  Al- 
cohol is  an  electric  or  absorbing  substance,  and 
by  absorbing  the  excess  of  magnetism,  tends  to 
give  a  certain  sense  of  relief;  hence  high  livers 
call  their  liquors  an  "aid  to  digestion."  At  the 
same  time,  the  absorbing  action  of  the  alcohol 
develops  various  unnatural  currents  of  blood  and 
other  liquids  which,  acting  on  the  brain,  give  the 
effect  of  exhilaration.  All  these  results,  how- 
ever, are  abnormal,  and  are  sure  to  produce  vary- 
ing derangement  of  functions,  false  instincts  and 
destruction  of  tissues  and  organisms.  While  it  is 
a  general  truth  that  nature  always  punishes  such 
errors,  it  is  also  true  that  nature  constantly  tries 
to  correct  the  results  of  errors;  and  when  vita- 
tiveness  is  strong,  a  man  may  last  through  a  long 
life  with  a  frequent  or  even  a  steady  use  of  alco- 
hol, though  it  is  reasonable  to  say  that  none  who 
do  indulge  live  as  long  or  as  well  as  they  ought 
to.  I  should  add,  in  passing,  that  most  alcoholic 
drinks  contain  positive  factors  which  may  serve 
the  purpose  of  food ;  also  that  the  destroying  or 
poisonous  property  of  alcohol  may  serve  as  an 
antidote  to  poisonous  or  diseased  conditions  ex- 
isting in  the  body  so  as  to  be  partially  beneficial, 
but  it  is  very  doubtful  if  it  is  ever  the  best  rem- 
edy. 


64  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

Closely  related  to  alcohol  in  its  use  and  ef- 
fects is  nicotine,  which  exists  in  all  forms  of  to- 
bacco. It  is  also  an  electric  or  absorbing  sub- 
stance, and  is  used  for  much  the  same  electric 
purposes  as  alcohol.  It  is  considered  less  vicious 
than  intoxicants  because  it  is  not  liable  to  pro- 
duce such  active  and  dangerous  derangement  of 
the  telepathic  sense;  but  its  many  subtle  forms  of 
injury  and  more  general  use,  especially  by  boys, 
make  the  question  of  the  greater  total  sum  of  in- 
jury to  American  society  doubtful.  The  princi- 
pal objections  to  tobacco  recognized  by  society 
are  the  outward  dirty  and  slovenly  appearances, 
the  vile  breath,  and  its  effect  upon  the  digestive 
system.  Even  these  are  little  regarded  on  ac- 
count of  our  racial  lack  of  self-respect.  There  is, 
however,  a  deeper  and  more  serious  result,  which 
cannot  be  overestimated,  and  that  is  the  certain 
injury  to  the  next  generation.  No  man  can  have 
as  sound  and  intelligent  child  as  he  ought  to 
have  who  keeps  his  system  deranged  with  nico- 
tine, for  not  only  is  the  healthful  condition  of 
the  male  factor  of  vital  importance  in  concep- 
tion, but  the  magnetism  radiated  from  the  body 
of  the  father  and  absorbed  by  the  mother  all 
through  the  periods  of  gestation  and  lactation 
must  be  of  pure  quality  to  secure  the  best  results 
in  the  young.  The  vicious  effects  of  tobacco  upon 
the  female  half  of  society,  especially  in  cities,  is 
even  more  serious,  though  indirect  and  subtle, 
than  upon  the  male  half.    Men  radiate  and  expel 


Bad  Habits.  65 

from  their  own  systems,  in  various  ways,  most  of 
the  poisons  which  their  bad  habits  produce,  but 
the  women  who  have  to  live  with  them  cannot  es- 
cape absorbing  much  of  those  poisons  (the  more 
feminine  and  affectionate  they  are  the  more  they 
absorb),  and  this  poison,  being  absorbed  during 
sex  companionship,  naturally  affects  the  gender 
sense  more  than  any  other.  Nearly  every  child 
born  in  a  tobacco  using  family  betrays  to  the  eye 
of  a  phrenologic  expert,  through  its  imperfect 
and  unlovely  eyes  and  mouth,  imperfections  of 
its  gender  nature;  and  that,  of  course,  means  an 
extension  of  its  physical  and  moral  defects  to  the 
next  succeeding  generation.  Besides  this,  the 
immediate  injury  and  suffering  endured  by  the 
wives  and  mothers  themselves  ought  to  be  recog- 
nized and  condemned  by  every  self-respecting 
member  of  society,  even  though  most  women  are 
too  obtuse  to  sense  the  causes  of  their  miseries, 
and  too  much  cowed  by  our  social  and  religious 
systems  to  assert  their  rights  and  do  their  duty 
to  themselves  and  children.  If  tombstones  told 
the  truth,  most  of  those  which  cover  wives  in  our 
American  cities  would  contain  these  words: 
"Smoked  to  Death." 

I  will  refer  to  but  one  other  result,  out  of 
many,  from  the  repulsive  tobacco  practices.  Nic- 
otine is  so  repulsive  to  the  body  that  whenever 
any  of  it  gets  into  the  lungs,  much  of  the  waste 
matter  of  the  body,  which  should  be  attracted  to 
the  intestines  and  expelled  through  them  or  the 


66  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

kidneys,  is  reacted  into  the  lungs  and  expelled  in 
the  breath;  so  that  those  who  indulge  in  those 
practices  cannot  escape  the  responsibility  of  sub- 
jecting their  companions  to  some  of  the  attrac- 
tions of  a  sewer. 

Now,  it  is  true  that  most  men  recognize  to 
some  extent  the  disgrace  and  injury  of  their 
practices,  and  only  wait  to  be  shown  how  to  free 
themselves  without  too  much  strain  upon  their 
will  power.  The  most  competent  authorities  give 
as  the  first  of  remedies  the  daily  use  of  sand  as 
food  to  replace  the  natural  supply  of  grit  which 
we  fail  to  get  in  our  prepared  foods;  second,  the 
frequent  drinking  of  water  and  a  large  reduction 
in  the  use  of  tea  and  coffee;  third,  changing  in 
a  large  part  from  a  meat  to  a  vegetable  and  fruit 
diet;  and  finally,  by  stimulating  the  normal  ac- 
tion of  the  body  by  self-massage  and  foot  bath- 
ing. 

Another  large  class  of  bad  habits  of  the  most 
serious  and  extensive  character,  and  the  most  dif- 
ficult to  deal  with,  is  that  developed  in  the  gen- 
der sense.  It  is  unnecessary  to  describe  them, 
for  everyone  knows  enough,  and  there  are  plenty 
of  books  to  tell  those  who  wish  to  know  more. 
They  all  grow  out  of  the  same  general  set  of 
causes;  they  all  react  upon  the  brain  through  the 
spinal  chord  and  derange  the  moral  nature  of  the 
telepathic  sense,  and  they  all  require  the  same 
general  system  of  treatment.  The  gender  organ- 
ism includes  several  of  the  largest  and  most  sen- 
sitive centers  of  the  nervous  system,  and  that  is 


Bad  Habits.  67 

the  seat  of  all  irritations  and  excitements.  Prac- 
tically all  such  bad  practices  begin  in  some  ex- 
cited or  deranged  condition  of  the  nervous  sys- 
tem, and  the  practices  aggravate  the  derange- 
ment until  it  becomes  chronic. 

Since  the  nervous  derangement  begins  in  and 
is  continued  by  bad  blood,  which  means  an  im- 
proper supply  of  magnetic  substances — and  also 
by  neglect  of  proper  elimination — we  have  the 
remedies  indicated  by  stating  the  conditions. 
Elimination  of  waste  from  the  body  is  the  first 
concern  in  any  rational  system  of  healing.  For 
this,  I  only  need  refer  to  what  I  have  described 
elsewhere:  Sand  to  stimulate  the  intestinal  ac- 
tion; water  for  cleansing  all  the  digestive  tract; 
massage  of  the  feet  and  abdomen  to  magnetize 
the  lower  body ;  freeing  the  body  of  waste  regu- 
larly before  retiring;  sleeping  in  the  open  night 
air  as  much  as  possible,  and  then  keeping  the 
mind  diverted  by  an  active,  objective  and  useful 
life.  All  sex  companionship  should  be  as  quiet- 
ing, harmonizing  and  self-respecting  as  possible. 

In  correcting  habits  of  young  people,  they 
need  to  have  their  self-respect  and  their  pride,  as 
growing  men  and  women,  cultivated  as  much  as 
possible,  by  encouragement,  not  criticism,  and  by 
securing  for  them  the  companionship  of  health- 
ful and  intellectual  people.  It  should  never  be 
forgotten  that  such  bad  habits  constitute  a  dis- 
ease for  which  the  victim  is  never  wholly  respon- 
sible, and,  as  all  its  forms  tend  toward  neurosis, 
paresis  and  insanity,  parents  cannot  afford  to 


68  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

neglect  any  means  to  build  up  their  children  into 
a  normal  sex  life — always  using  kindness,  confi- 
dence and  positive  culture,  and  never  shaming, 
scolding  nor  abusing  them.  Such  methods  intel- 
ligently and  persistently  carried  on  can  correct 
so  nearly  all  cases  that  no  exceptions  should  be 
admitted.  To  this  I  will  only  add,  but  most  earn- 
estly, let  all  drugs  and  sex  specialists  severely 
alone.  Our  cities  are  swarming  with  such  med- 
ical harpies  who  have  no  interest  in  really  heal- 
ing, only  to  keep  deluded  victims  on  the  string; 
and,  as  they  live  upon  vice,  they  naturally  form 
one  of  the  most  dangerous  and  dishonest  classes 
of  society. 

The  gambling  habit,  while  not  so  serious  as 
either  of  the  others  mentioned,  is  too  extensive 
and  demoralizing  to  be  overlooked.  Gambling 
springs  from  an  unbalanced  acquisitiveness, 
weak  conscientiousness  and  lack  of  dignity.  Phre- 
nologists recognize  the  causes  of  gambling  in  the 
brain,  and  can  tell  parents  when  and  how  to 
watch  for  it.  Most  people  begin  it  in  that  mean- 
est of  all  children's  games — playing  marbles  "for 
keeps."  It  destroys  respect  for  others  and  culti- 
vates more  meanness,  selfishness  and  dishonesty 
than  any  other  practice  in  the  average  career  of 
boyhood.  It  is  the  most  fertile  breeding  ground 
for  the  race  track  and  all  its  evils,  and  it  gives  all 
the  respectability  there  is  in  dice  throwing  and 
card  playing  for  money.  Stir  up  the  pride1  of 
your  boys  and  give  them  more  rational  and  hon- 
est enjoyment. 


PlUlosophy  of  Disease.  69 


THE  PHILOSOPHY  OP  DISEASE. 

This  class  of  problems  interests  most  people 
more  than  anything  else,  perhaps,  in  the  science 
of  living.  Ill-health  and  unsoundness  are  so 
nearly  universal  among  adults,  and  so  common 
even  among  children  in  our  American  life,  that 
the  vitosophist  has  naturally  given  it  much  at- 
tention, and  I  believe  with  much  better  results 
than  any  other  school.  In  general  terms,  we  find 
that  health  is  the  normal  condition  of  life,  and 
any  lack  of  it  comes  from  some  one's  failure  to 
obey  natural  law.  Of  course,  it  is  true  that  while 
nature  has  provided  a  complete  and  perfect  sys- 
tem of  instincts  to  govern  all  human  action  so 
as  to  preserve  the  harmony  of  life,  yet  we  are  in 
constant  contact  with  conditions  of  life  that  will 
not  fully  harmonize  with  our  temperaments ;  and 
we  have  to  depend  more  or  less  upon  suggestion 
and  evidence — that  is,  advice. 

Ill-health  or  disease  is  a  condition  of  discord 
in  the  body  resulting  from  several  general  causes, 
which,  in  the  order  of  their  direct  influence  and 
seriousness,  may  be  classed  as  follows:  First, 
neglect  of  proper  elimination  of  waste  matter; 
second,  an  improper  supply  of  magnetism  to  the 
chemical  forces  in  the  form  of  food  and  drink; 
third,  improper  supply  of  the  finer  forms  of  mag- 
netism,   such   as   air,   human   magnetism,    etc.; 


70  Lining  by  Natural  Law. 

fourth,  the  exercise  of  unhealthy  habits  of  many 
kinds ;  and,  finally,  though  not  least,  unwise  and 
destructive  medication,  with  dependence  upon 
doctors  instead  of  Divine  consciousness  or  com- 
mon sense. 

Disease  conditions  may  be  divided  into  mag- 
netic and  electric  classes,  though  both  factors  al- 
ways appear  in  each  case;  but,  in  proportion  as 
either  prevails,  the  remedies  should  be  corre- 
spondingly electric  or  magnetic.  A  magnetic  dis- 
ease or  condition  would  exist  where  elimination 
was  deficient  or  suppressed,  or  the  body  overfed, 
and  hence  the  body  becomes  overloaded  with  vi- 
brating impurities  or  discordant  magnetism, 
which  we  call  fevers,  rheumatism,  and  a  thou- 
sand other  things — all  the  active  diseases,  in 
fact.  The  elaborate  classifying  of  diseases  and 
the  attempt  to  treat  them  specifically  is  nearly 
all  humbug.  In  all  cases  the  whole  system  is  un- 
healthy with  slight  variations,  and  the  weakest 
or  most  susceptible  organs  break  down  first,  and 
that  gives  an  excuse  for  a  name. 

The  general  system  for  treating  this  larger 
class  of  ills — and  which  nature  always  tries  to 
have  us  use — is  to  first  apply  electric  agencies 
for  drawing  or  attracting  the  excess  or  waste 
from  the  system,  and  then  rebuild  with  new  and 
proper  substance. 

Electric  diseases  or  ills  are  those  of  deficient 
vitality,  the  most  common  beginning  with  poor 


Philosophy  of  Disease.  71 

generation,  or,  to  speak  more  gingerly,  a  weak 
constitution,  and  then  aggravated  by  lack  of  suf- 
ficient nourishment  for  some  or  all  parts  of  the 
system.  It  is  obvious  that  the  general  remedy 
for  this  second  class  of  ills  would  be  a  richer  and 
more  abundant  supply  of  food,  drink,  air  and 
companionship,  with  much  more  attention  than 
we  now  give  to  the  individual  temperaments. 

While  I  must  be  too  brief  in  the  present  vol- 
ume, I  will  give  the  general  laws  of  curation  as 
nature  prompts.  As  I  said,  the  first  need  in  all 
magnetic  cases  is  a  proper  electric  treatment  to 
draw  impurities  from  the  system,  and  especially 
through  the  natural  channels  instead  of  through 
lungs  and  skin,  as  is  done  by  most  systems  of 
treatment  when  done  at  all.  The  means  that  I 
urge  most,  because  people  are  most  ignorant  of 
it,  is  the  use  of  sand — clean  quartz  sand  if  pos- 
sible, but  any  sand  will  serve.  Nature  prompts 
every  animal  to  eat  sand  or  clay  when  it  does  not 
have  enough  grit  matter  provided  in  its  food. 
The  substance  of  the  earth  is  the  universal  elec- 
tric absorbent  of  all  waste  magnetism,  and  when 
we  eat  sand — not  dirt — it  draws  or  attracts  the 
impurities  of  the  whole  body  to  the  intestines 
and  liquid  ducts,  where,  by  proper  and  period ic 
attention,  they  can  be  disposed  of  without  effort. 
This  sand  treatment  should  be  supplemented  by 
frequent  drinking  of  water,  with  little  other 
drink,  save  milk  and  fruit  juices,  and  by  a  daily 


72  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

massage  by  self  or  some  other  congenial  hand,  of 
the  abdomen,  lower  limbs  and  soles  of  the  feet. 
Such  an  intelligent  electric  treatment  will  always 
stimulate  a  natural  self-acting  attraction,  or 
hunger,  in  the  stomach,  lungs  and  brain  for  a 
fresh  supply  of  substance  or  food,  and  restore  the 
normal  action  of  the  several  senses.  The  subject 
of  food,  however,  I  shall  treat  elsewhere. 

Next  to  sand,  water,  food  and  massage,  nearly 
all  people  must  have  a  better  air  supply  during 
the  hours  of  rest  and  sleep.  During  active  hours 
bad  air  does  less  injury  than  when  the  body  is 
in  a  negative  or  relaxed  condition.  Our  medical 
brethren  are  being  slowly  forced  to  recognize 
these  facts,  though  they  have  always  been  self- 
evident,  and  the  most  progressive  doctors  now 
place  their  main  dependence  upon  open-air  sleep- 
ing for  destroying  tuberculous  diseases.  But 
who  teaches  parents  that  they  must  give  their 
children  the  same  fresh  air  to  avoid  danger  of 
tuberculosis,  and  also  that  the  parents  must  live 
the  same  way  themselves  to  secure  healthy  birth 
for  their  children  ?  Poor  doctors !  Did  you  ever 
think  that  you  never  pay  them  to  keep  you  well 
— as  the  Chinamen  do — but  merely  to  keep  you 
alive?  A  doctor  has  no  professional  interest  in 
a  healthy  man,  and  when  he  tries  to  keep  you 
really  well  he  does  it  from  the  natural  goodness 
of  his  humanity  and  not  as  a  doctor.  The  med- 
ical profession  is  not  responsible  for  the  fact  that 


Philosophy  of  Disease.  73 

it  ought  not  to  exist  They  are  a  necessary  and 
honorable  response  to  an  unnecessary  and  shame- 
ful demand  of  society.  Vitosophy  is  teaching  the 
world  to  live  without  them. 

The  last  great  curative  influence  is  that  of 
healthful  and  proper  companionship.  Progress- 
ive schools  of  science  are  just  beginning  to  recog- 
nize the  electro-magnetic  currents  which  flow  be- 
tween people  in  all  companionship,  and  the  fact 
that  those  currents  are  composed  of  real  sub- 
stance, which  can  give  or  destroy  life  and  health. 
We  now  know  that  no  one  can  escape  the  respon- 
sibility of  producing  either  a  bad  or  a  good  effect 
upon  the  body  and  character  of  every  one  with 
whom  he  associates  in  any  manner.  Doctors  now 
know  (if  not  they  soon  fail)  that  they  must  gen- 
erate an  atmosphere  that  will  give  hope  and 
cheerfulness,  and  that  they  can  effect  more  ben- 
efit in  that  way  than  by  their  drugs,  while  their 
drugs  are  steadily  showing  a  larger  proportion  of 
simple  food  or  earth  matter  (thanks,  partly,  to 
adulteration ) . 

A  word  about  medicines — for  medicine  will 
long  continue  to  be  society's  humbug.  They  are 
facts,  good  or  bad,  and,  like  everything  else,  they 
are  either  magnetic  or  electric  in  their  action. 
All  drugs  composed  wholly  or  mainly  of  earthy 
or  mineral  matter  are  electric  and  only  draw  sub- 
stance from  the  system.  The  injury  is  that  most 
of  them  are  too  foreign  and  act  too  violently,  so 


74  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

as  not  only  to  draw  impurities,  but  substance  not 
yet  expended,  and  thus  cause  weakness  and  de- 
rangement, Vegetable  medicines,  on  the  other 
hand,  are  magnetic — when  not  destroyed  by  al- 
cohol or  other  poisons — and  give  substance  to  the 
body,  which  may  be  beneficial  or  injurious,  ac- 
cording to  the  temperament  and  other  conditions, 
though  only  by  sheer  luck  so  far  as  the  average 
practitioner  really  knows.  Medicines  which  do 
harmonize  with  the  system  and  give  constructive 
benefit  without  injury  are  simply  food.  When 
applied  by  the  most  skillful,  it  is  probable  that 
most  medicines  produce  both  good  and  bad  effects 
upon  differnt  parts  of  the  system,  but  as  society 
grows  more  sensible  and  more  critical,  we  shall 
see  a  general  tendency  to  make  all  remedies  pure- 
ly magnetic  or  purely  electric,  and  apply  them 
with  greater  regard  to  the  individual  tempera- 
ments. 


Laics  of  Food.  75 


FOOD. 

Food  and  drink  contain  that  portion  of  con- 
creted magnetism  which  the  taste  organism  that 
we  call  the  digestion  is  required  to  contribute  for 
the  growth  and  maintenance  of  life.  In  the  phe- 
nomena of  hunger,  eating,  digesting,  and  then 
eliminating  waste  matter,  we  have  an  illustra- 
tion of  the  Fowler  theory  of  attraction  and  re- 
pulsion of  matter  in  contradiction  of  the  New- 
tonian theory.  The  hunger  of  the  stomach  is  an 
electric  or  vacuum  condition,  and  gives  the  best 
illustration  of  "negative  force."  The  conscious- 
ness which  pervades  this  organism  is  certainly 
real.  It  conveys  to  the  telepathic  sense  informa- 
tion of  just  what  kinds  of  food  will  provide  the 
different  classes  of  magnetism  required  to  fill 
the  vacancies  and  restore  or  maintain  harmony. 
The  information  conveyed  to  the  brain  is  more 
elaborate  and  complex  than  the  knowledge  of 
any  chemist,  and  involves  every  edible  substance. 
Nor  does  the  consciousness  of  the  taste  sense  stop 
with  merely  sending  for  food.  The  instinct  also 
tells  when  and  in  what  quantities  it  is  desired ; 
and  if  the  taste  is  normal  and  the  food  is  of  the 
right  kind,  the  electric  condition  will  cease  and 


76  Living  By  Natural  Law. 

the  hunger  be  appeased  by  the  proper  quantity. 
Nor  yet  does  the  instinct  cease  with  acquiring 
food,  but  anticipates  elimination  and  calls  for 
such  earthy  substances  as  will  not  dissolve  into 
magnetism,  but  act  as  electric  or  absorbing  sub- 
stances and  draw  all  the  expended  or  waste  mat- 
ter of  the  body  to  the  intestines  and  kidneys,  so 
as  to  be  disposed  of  with  least  offense  and  pre- 
vent their  expulsion  through  the  lungs  and  skin, 
to  the  injury  of  the  person  and  the  disgust  of 
society. 

Most  of  our  foods  in  their  natural  form  con- 
tain more  or  less  of  indigestible  matter,  which 
serves  to  promote  elimination ;  but  we  lose  near- 
ly all  of  this  in  our  cooking  process,  and  for  that 
reason  it  is  essential  for  all  who  live  in  a  con- 
ventional manner  to  add  a  small  amount  of 
quartz  sand  each  day — say  half  a  spoonful  or 
more.  This  has  such  a  natural  affinity  for  the 
stomach  that  you  only  need  to  place  it  on  the 
tongue  and  forget  about  it;  the  attraction  of 
the  stomach  will  soon  draw  every  particle  to 
itself  without  causing  any  conscious  effort.  This 
treatment  is  the  surest  preventive  from  constipa- 
tion and  that  prize  humbug  of  our  medical 
friends,  appendicitis,  which,  by  the  way,  is  never 
a  first  cause  of  the  trouble,  but  is  always  a  prod- 
uct   (if  the  appendix  is  diseased  at  all)    of  a 


Laws  of  Food.  11 

filthy  neglect  of  elimination,  and  allowing  the 
lower  portion  of  the  body  to  become  dormant 
from  lack  of  exercise  and  magnetic  treatment, 
and  lack  of  contact  with  the  earth. 

While  it  is  true  that  the  taste  instinct  is 
created  to  tell  all  we  need  to  know,  we  meet  with 
many  conditions  that  prevent  us  from  securing 
what  our  instinct  calls  for,  and  we  are  obliged 
to  depend  much  upon  reason  and  advice.  More 
serious  still  is  the  fact  that  nearly  all  of  us  are 
wrongly  fed  from  earliest  infancy,  and  as  nature 
always  tries  to  adjust  us  to  existing  conditions — 
though  protesting  against  them — we  grow  up 
with  unnatural  and  unhealthy  instincts  and  de- 
sires. At  least  three-fourths  of  the  children  in 
our  Northern  states  have  a  magnetic  taste  organ- 
ism which  requires  a  diet  of  cool  food  and  drink. 
A  vigorous,  magnetic,  warm-blooded  body  will 
react  strongly  upon  cool  food  and  dispose  of  it 
thoroughly,  while  magnetic  or  hot  food  conflicts 
with  a  warm  stomach  and  causes  a  weaker  and 
imcomplete  digestion.  This  weakening  influence 
extends  through  the  whole  tract  until  nature  ad- 
justs itself  as  best  it  can,  so  that  in  time  hot 
food  seems  to  be  desired;  but  this  result  can 
never  take  place  without  injury,  and  intestinal 
diseases  are  a  common  and  logical  result.  Few 
mothers  have  not  tried  to  improve  upon  divine 


78  Living  by  Natural  Law, 

law  by  scolding  or  whipping  their  children  into 
eating  hot  food  that  was  repulsive  and  injurious, 
simply  because  it  was  hot.  On  the  other  hand, 
equal  care  should  be  used  to  keep  really  cold 
food  from  a  stomach  that  is  so  electric  or  so  weak 
that  it  cannot  react,  The  stomach  of  a  magnetic 
person  may  be  electric  for  the  time  when  the 
body  is  exhausted  by  labor  or  anxiety,  and  needs 
hot  food  or  drink  to  stimulate  and  revive  the 
body. 

The  second  most  common  cause  of  injury  is 
the  neglect  and  ignorance  of  the  chemical  tem- 
peraments. People  of  the  acid  temperament  re- 
quire a  larger  quantity  of  alkaloid,  or  sweet 
food,  while  the  alkaloid  people  need  more  sour 
food  and  drink.  The  difference  is  not  always 
pronounced,  for  many  people  are  of  a  moderate 
or  mixed  type,  and  the  condition  of  each  one  con- 
stantly varies  to  some  extent  to  accord  with  the 
food  previously  taken. 

As  it  commonly  happens  that  children  in  the 
same  family  vary  much  in  temperament,  it  is 
manifest  folly,  as  well  as  cruel  injustice,  to  com- 
pel them  to  take  all  food  alike.  The  fact  that 
one  child  will  be  happy  and  hearty,  and  another 
one  sickly  and  miserable  while  living  upon  the 
same  diet,  seldom  needs  any  other  explanation. 
Nearly  all  mothers,  either  by  nature  or  by  bad 


Laws  of  Food.  79 

habit,  are  electric  in  taste,  and  cannot  under- 
stand the  natural  taste  and  needs  of  their  warm- 
blooded children. 

Among  the  popular  and  general  errors  re- 
garding food  is  the  idea  that  food  is  desirable  in 
proportion  to  its  ease  and  quickness  of  digestion. 
The  digesting  organism,  if  normal,  requires  vig- 
orous exercise,  as  does  the  muscular  system. 
Food  which  digests  easily  may  have  a  bad  effect, 
while  that  which  takes  much  time  and  effort  may 
be  the  very  best. 

Another  common  error  is  the  disregard  of 
enjoyment.  Nature  requires  that  the  exercise  of 
all  seven  organisms  should  be  enjoyed,  and  that 
all  which  are  not  needed  in  use  should  be  re- 
laxed for  the  time  being.  The  more  we  enjoy 
food,  the  more  benefit  we  will  get  from  it,  and  the 
nervous  system  should  not  be  excited  or  exerted 
upon  anything  else — like  studying  school  books 
during  eating. 

The  next  most  popular  error  is  that  all  food 
should  be  cooked  and  that  all  drink  should  be 
boiled.  Nature  provides  most  foods  in  a  better 
condition  for  a  natural  stomach  than  they  can  be 
made  by  cooking.  With  nuts,  fruits,  grains  and 
vegetables,  this  is  largely  true.  People  are  cer- 
tainly healthier  when  living  in  that  way,  if  they 
can  get  the  proper  combination  of  rich  foods.    It 


80  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

is  possible,  though  not  yet  certain,  that  a  greater 
degree  of  mental  and  muscular  power  can  be 
stimulated  by  certain  cooking  processes.  It  is 
well  known,  however,  that  college  athletes,  when 
training  for  the  greatest  mental  and  physical  ex- 
ertions, live  upon  a  very  simple  diet  and  include 
a  large  portion  of  raw  fruits  and  nuts.  Prof. 
Windsor,  who  is  himself  one  of  the  most  signifi- 
cant examples  of  great  mental  and  physical 
strength  in  the  United  States,  is  most  positive 
and  emphatic  in  advancing  the  limitation  of 
diet  to  raw  food,  and  to  plain  water,  milk  and 
fruit  juices  for  drink.  The  reason  why  most 
people  find  fault  with  them  is  partly  from  their 
own  unnatural  and  weakened  condition,  and 
partly  from  the  common  practice  of  eating  fruits 
and  nuts  between  meals,  and  regardless  of  proper 
combination.  Nuts,  which  are  rich  in  oils  or 
alkaloids,  require  counter  acids,  while  fruits 
usually  have  acid  properties  of  different  kinds 
which  call  for  counteracting  alkaloid  or  sweet 
food.  Since,  however,  people  must  cook  from 
force  of  habit  and  tradition,  there  is  abundant 
field  for  reform  in  methods.  The  most  wasteful 
practice  is  that  of  boiling  vegetables.  Probably 
half  a  billion  dollars  in  value  of  natural  sugar, 
salts  and  acids  is  destroyed  in  the  United  States 
each  year  in  that  way  alone.     If  cooked  at  all, 


Laics  of  Food.  81 

they  should  be  treated  with  dry  heat  or  steam 
in  tight  covers.  One  reason  why  a  vegetable  diet 
is  so  discredited  is  because  people  depend  mainly 
upon  one  of  the  poorest  of  vegetables — the  potato 
— and  then  spoil  that.  Beans,  corn,  peas,  beets, 
sweet  potatoes  and  tomatoes  make  a  richer  and 
much  healthier  diet  than  meats,  and  only  require 
intelligent  treatment.  When  vegetables  are 
boiled  with  meats,  as  with  beans,  or  in  soups,  the 
oil  upon  the  surface  of  the  water  checks  the  radi- 
ation and  waste  of  the  richer  substance,  and  thus 
to  some  extent  saves  the  escaping  values.  Chang- 
ing cooking  to  close  baking  and  dry  steam  heat- 
ing will  make  a  great  saving  in  health  and 
wealth,  but  whenever  your  children  offer  to  take 
food  raw,  please  humbly  defer  to  their  superior 
common  sense. 

Nearly  all  bad  habits  have  their  most  com- 
mon primal  origin  in  cooking  and  in  neglect  of 
elimination.  Bad  digestion  produces  bad  blood 
and  serum;  then  deranged  nerves;  then  a  de- 
mand for  narcotics,  drugs  and  alcohol;  a  de- 
rangement of  the  gender  impulses;  a  quarrel- 
some temper;  and  all  these  promote  selfishness, 
dishonesty  and  untruthfulness.  I  am  confident 
that  a  people  living  upon  a  proper  variety  and 
quality  of  raw  food,  and  a  natural  philosophy 

and  religion  would  never  develop  bad  habits. 

o 


82  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

An  interesting  phase  of  food  philosophy  is 
the  fact  that  nature  has  adjusted  the  foods  of 
each  climate  to  the  instinct  and  needs  of  the 
people  of  the  same  climate.  Society  has  badly 
neglected  this  law,  as  it  has  most  other  natural 
laws,  and  does  too  much  transporting  of  foods 
between  different  climates.  Our  Northern  foods 
are  best  suited  to  us — except  to  some  extent  when 
we  have  tropical  weather.  Then  we  may  find 
the  tropical  fruits  more  satisfying,  as  they  pro- 
duce less  vibration  and  sense  of  heat.  Our  sum- 
mer fruits  suit  us  best  in  warm  weather,  while 
autumn  fruits  and  other  foods  are  more  heating 
and  better  adapted  for  the  colder  part  of  the 
year. 

I  cannot  give  the  space  I  desire  to  the  ques- 
tions of  meat  eating,  to  preserving,  and  to  adul- 
teration. The  present  year  of  1906  has  seen 
much  interesting,  and,  I  hope,  instructive  agita- 
tion upon  these  lines.  The  discussion  has  given 
most  benefit  to  those  who  have  been  scared  or 
disgusted  back  to  more  natural  living,  though 
most  of  them  are  sadly  ignorant  of  a  proper  veg- 
etable diet.  Few  domestic  animals  are  very  fit 
for  human  food,  though  people  vary  greatly  in 
their  affinity  for  it.  Electric  people  are  better 
suited  by  meats,  on  the  average,  than  those  mag- 
netic.    This  is  especially  true  of  pork  and  its 


Laws  of  Food.  83 

products.  It  is  generally  agreed  that  beef  is 
more  fit  than  pork,  and  that  mutton  is  more  fit 
than  either.  All  meats  are  largely  affected  in 
quality  by  the  food  and  drink  upon  which  they 
have  lived,  and,  as  all  unsalted  meats  are  quite 
heating  or  magnetic,  they  should  be  avoided  by 
all  magnetic  people  as  much  as  possible — 
through  warm  weather,  at  least. 

Salt,  and  most  other  embalming  substances, 
have  a  destructive  chemical  effect  upon  the  di- 
gestive system  and  cause  unnatural  acids  by  re- 
action, and  these  are  probably  the  main  source 
of  the  ills  called  rheumatism  and  neuralgia. 

The  use  of  grain  food  is  destined  to  provoke 
a  great  deal  of  discussion  for  a  long  time  to  come. 
The  Windsor  school  of  writers  give  that  class  of 
foods  a  low  value  on  account  of  the  excessive 
amount  of  starch.  It  is,  however,  most  probable 
that  all  grains  are  best  in  their  natural  state, 
and  decrease  in  value  the  more  they  are  treated, 
until  we  get  the  poorest  result  in  what  society 
values  most — raised  white  bread.  This  contains 
neither  the  rich  kernel  or  seed  germ,  nor  the 
grit  matter  of  the  hull,  which  is  essential  for 
elimination.  The  question  of  using  yeast  in 
bread  making  is  also  a  matter  for  serious  study. 
It  is  now  claimed  to  be  the  greatest  cause  of 
catarrh  through  the  yeast  microbe.    Late  reports 


84  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

claim  that  bread-raising  yeast  can  be  made  by 
the  use  of  catarrh  sputum. 

The  use  of  coffee  and  tea  is  also  a  stock  ques- 
tion of  dispute  among  food  experts.  That  they 
produce  a  great  and  almost  general  injury  is 
rarely  disputed.  Their  effects  vary  so  constantly, 
however,  with  different  people,  and  under  differ- 
ing conditions,  that  I  shall  not  undertake  to  deal 
with  it  here.  It  is  probable  that  their  excessive 
use  comes  partly  from  an  unnatural  desire 
caused  by  improper  food,  and  in  another  part 
from  the  frequently  poor  quality  of  water.  I 
will  only  say  for  myself,  that,  living  in  my 
home  city  of  Seattle,  with  one  of  the  healthiest 
water  systems  in  the  world,  I  have  no  desire  and 
no  use  for  any  other  drink  than  straight  cold 
water,  and  I  take  it  many  times  a  day. 

My  final  word  upon  food  is :  Cultivate  a  nat- 
ural taste,  and  then  follow  its  instincts. 


Protection  and  Clothing.  85 


LAW  OF  PROTECTION  AND  CLOTHING. 

The  only  law  of  clothing  recognized  by  soci- 
ety is  that  of  the  fashion  maker — and  that  is  cer- 
tainly despotic  enough  at  times  to  those  who 
know  no  laAV  except  that  made  by  fashionable 
society.  It  is  true  that  we  have  the  law  of  the 
police,  which  declares  in  effect  that  the  sexes 
must  not  borrow  each  others'  clothing,  and  that 
we  must  not  appear  in  public  without  clothing. 
But  how  many  ever  consider  sensibly  what  na- 
ture itself  says  about  clothing?  (For  nature 
makes  all  law ;  man  can  only  make  statutes. ) 

In  the  primal  laws  of  human  life,  man  was 
provided  with  a  non-conductive  substance  in  the 
skin  which  served  to  insulate  him  from  the 
changes  of  electro-magnetic  conditions — that  is, 
the  atmosphere.  This  insulator  produced  what 
we  call  hair;  very  fine  and  short  on  the  skin, 
which  covered  the  muscular  system,  but  with 
varying  degrees  of  length  and  density  over  those 
glands  and  organisms  which  were  most  subject  to 
injury  from  climatic  changes.  This  extra  growth 
also  varies  to  greater  or  less  extent  between  the 
members  of  the  tAvo  sexes,  with  some  relation  to 
the  development  of  the  gender  nature.     Those 


86  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

glands  which  are  most  electric  or  receptive  have 
the  most  covering,  while  those  that  are  magnetic 
and  radiating,  so  as  to  give  warmth,  have  less. 
This  is  most  noticeable  in  the  breast,  throat  and 
face.  In  the  normal  female  those  glands  are  so 
positive  and  radiating  with  magnetism  that  they 
do  not  need  more  covering  than  the  rest  of  the 
body,  while  the  same  portions  of  a  normal  man 
are  so  absorbing,  rather  than  radiating,  as  to 
make  more  hair  or  more  clothing  necessary.  Men 
are  more  subject  than  women  to  such  congestions 
of  the  lungs  and  throat  as  are  caused  by  direct 
contact  of  the  atmosphere.  The  close  relation- 
ship between  these  parts  of  the  body  and  the  sex 
nature  gives  a  peculiar  interest  to  the  various 
characteristics  of  their  hair  covering.  The 
mother  nature  instinctively  distrusts  the  man 
who  cannot  grow  a  beard,  while  the  father  nature 
distrusts  the  woman  who  has  much  hairy  growth 
upon  her  face.  The  differences  in  the  head 
growth  of  hair  always  have  sonie  relationship  to 
the  radiating  and  attracting  qualities  of  the 
mind.  The  color,  texture  and  elasticity  of  the 
hair  are  also  related  to  the  various  attributes  of 
the  glands  or  muscles  covered  by  it. 

When  mankind  became  conscious  enough  to 
feel  itself  suffering  from  severe  weather — for 
even  nature  cannot  provide  perfect  conditions  for 


Protection  and  Clothing.  87 

its  children — they  were  moved  to  use  their  wits 
in  making  artificial  covering  for  additional  in- 
sulation. This  must  have  begun  with  hand- 
woven  grasses,  mosses,  tree  fiber  and  other  vege- 
table substances,  and  was  supplemented  ages 
later  with  animal  skins,  and  in  still  later  ages 
with  manufactured  cloth. 

The  animal  instinct  for  all  clothing  was  sim- 
ply protection.  As  the  objective  organs  of  the 
forehead  developed  distinctions  and  sense  of  har- 
mony in  color,  form  and  quality,  more  or  less  in- 
terest naturally  grew  for  distinctive  taste  in  the 
constructing,  coloring,  figuring  and  finishing  of 
their  garments,  and  artistic  expression  doubtless 
began  in  that  way. 

What  precipitated  the  idea  of  impropriety  or 
indelicacy,  and  finally  of  immorality  in  nudity, 
or  in  absence  or  incompleteness  of  dress,  is  a 
question  too  ancient  to  solve,  but  it  probably 
began  with  the  necessity  of  giving  special  protec- 
tion to  the  glands  of  the  gender  nature  and  draw- 
ing attention  to  them  thereby,  rather  than  from 
any  result  of  education  or  of  religious  ideas.  I 
find  no  trace  in  history  of  any  great  concern 
about  propriety  in  clothing  until  the  opening  of 
the  Christian  era,  when  the  reactionary  ideas  in 
regard  to  the  sex  nature  developed  an  abnormal 
concern  upon  that  issue.    A  true  and  refined  un- 


88  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

derstanding  of  the  laws  of  the  gender  nature 
would  free  society  from  its  excessive  conscious- 
ness upon  that  point.  The  serious  effect  upon 
health  caused  by  our  prevailing  code,  prompts 
me  to  say  a  word  for  children  and  infants,  whose 
early  life  and  morals  are  always  injured  by  our 
customs.  Nature  requires  in  young  infants  an 
almost  incessant  motion  of  the  limbs  during 
waking  hours,  and  a  very  early  contact  with  the 
earth,  when  it  is  awake  and  magnetic.  It  also 
requires  the  direct  effect  of  sunlight,  though 
varying  much  with  its  own  temperament.  It  is 
therefore  imperative  that  the  waking  hours  of 
infancy  and  early  childhood  shall,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, be  free  from  clothing  or  covering.  In  con- 
nection with  this,  let  me  say  that  the  inner  life 
of  the  whole  family  should  be  so  free  and  respect- 
ful as  to  shut  out  the  question  of  sex  propriety  as 
a  factor  in  clothing,  so  far  as  possible,  for  it  is 
still  contrary  to  and  in  violation  of  nature. 

Returning  to  its  original  purpose,  that  of 
supplementing — not  to  take  the  place  of — the 
insulating  skin,  we  discover  that  clothing  should, 
so  far  as  possible,  be  coarse  and  loose,  and  in  as 
small  quantity  as  will  insure  comfort.  Hats 
need  to  be  well  ventilated  when  they  must  be 
worn  at  all.  Many  farmers  and  woodsmen,  who 
follow  natural  instinct,  go  bareheaded  and  are 


Protection  and  Clothmg.  89 

nearly  always  healthier,  as  well  as  more  com- 
fortable, for  it.  Shoes,  and  especially  rubbers, 
insulate  the  feet  from  necessary  contact  with  the 
earth,  and  this  should  be  corrected  by  bathing 
and  friction  of  the  feet  soles  to  keep  the  magnetic 
currents  of  the  body  in  tone. 

Bedding  needs  adaptation  to  the  electric  con- 
dition, which  takes  place  during  sleep  and  relax- 
ation. To  accord  with  the  magnetic  currents  of 
the  earth,  the  body  should  lie  with  the  head  to 
the  north.  This  will  always  keep  the  head 
much  cooler  than  when  it  is  toward  the  south, 
and  give  it  better  rest.  Feet  require  more  care 
than  the  head  ( the  best  natural  treatment  of  the 
head  is  through  the  feet),  and  therefore  should 
have  more  covering  than  the  rest  of  the  body. 
Neglect  of  that  rule  is  one  of  the  greatest  causes 
of  respiratory  congestion. 


90  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

PHYSICAL  EXERCISE. 

The  question  of  exercise  as  a  factor  in  human 
law  calls  for  a  brief  note.  A  great  deal  of  mis- 
chief is  being  done,  and  thousands  of  valuable 
lives  are  lost  every  year  from  popular  ignorance 
of  the  laws  of  nature  regarding  physical  exer- 
cise. 

About  half  of  the  American  children  are 
brought  up  upon  the  farm,  or  in  open  country 
where  there  is  usually  plenty  of  work  for  all,  and 
few  of  them  suffer  from  lack  of  something  to  do. 
The  danger  in  their  case — and  it  amounts  to  a 
national  fault — is  the  general  tendency  among 
parents  to  make  farm  and  house  labor  a  repul- 
sive and  monotonous  duty,  with  but  little,  if  any, 
relief  in  the  way  of  diversion,  relaxation  and 
amusement.  The  old  false  dogma,  "In  the  sweat 
of  thy  face  shalt  thou  eat  thy  bread,"  had  much 
to  do  with  making  the  Puritan  life  of  New  Eng- 
land farmers  hard,  dry  and  repellant.  A  people 
driven  by  necessity  and  by  a  superstitious  ideal 
of  duty,  are  not  apt  to  cultivate  the  niceties, 
graces  and  enjoyments  of  life  which  intelligent 
and  thoughtful  children  desire  and  need.  Had 
the  New  England  farmers  taught  their  boys  and 
girls  to  regard  work  with  dignity  and  pride,  and 
given    such    incentives    to    accomplishment    as 


Physical  Exercise.  91 

would  make  work  interesting  and  enjoyable,  and 
then  diversified  it  with  the  cultivation  of  artistic 
and  intellectual  expression,  including  the  adorn- 
ment of  lands,  streets  and  homes,  the  history  of 
New  England  and  the  Western  communities 
which  they  have  built  would  have  been  far  better 
and  happier,  and  New  England  itself  would  not 
have  been  so  generally  deserted  by  its  best  blood. 

In  city  and  village  life  there  is  too  often  little 
opportunity — even  when  parents  have  the  wis- 
dom— for  giving  children  such  exercise  as  shall 
be  both  stimulating  and  useful:  and  the  only  re- 
sort is  the  playground,  where  monotony  and  lone- 
liness is  replaced  by  an  excess  of  association  that 
prevents  much  chance  of  reflection  and  medita- 
tion; and  is  an  even  greater  hindrance  to  nat- 
ural and  useful  ambition. 

It  is  a  common  fact  in  urban  life  that  chil- 
dren are  born  or  made  to  live  so  as  to  be  deficient 
in  physical  force  and  development.  In  such  cases 
it  is  always  taken  for  granted  that  anything 
which  develops  the  muscular  system  is  desirable. 
While  this  is  partially  true,  there  are  important 
modifying  facts  not  often  known.  Vitosophic 
phrenology  would  decide  from  all  the  factors  in 
the  body  and  mind  what  course  of  life  the  child 
should  be  developed  for,  and  have  both  the  men- 
tal and  physical  life  .gained  accordingly.  Those 

V  Or" 


92  Li ring  by  Natura  I  La  i r. 

who  should  lead  either  purely  intellectual  or  sed- 
entary lives  should  not  develop  the  lungs  and 
blood  vessels  to  large  capacity,  for  when  their 
change  of  occupation  requires  or  induces  them  to 
reduce  the  exercise  of  those  organs,  congestion 
and  disease  is  apt  to  result.  Great  numbers  of 
college  athletes  have  this  experience.  For  such 
people,  a  few  minutes  of  vigorous  self-massage 
each  morning  upon  rising,  sufficient  to  magnet- 
ize the  stomach  and  make  it  fit  to  receive  healthy, 
cool  food,  is  a  natural  course  to  take. 

I  will  not  take  space  to  treat  of  games  and 
exercises  with  companionship,  but  will  say  a 
word  of  home  and  private  exercises.  These 
should  be  natural  in  form  and  enjoyable  as  pos- 
sible. Whenever  it  can  be  done,  private  exercise 
should  be  taken  entirely  nude,  and  before  a  mir- 
ror, so  as  to  enjoy  the  beauty  of  motion;  and  the 
exercises  should  have  no  set  forms,  but  follow 
the  instinct  of  each  moment,  A  rapid  massage  of 
the  abdomen  with  the  hands — keeping  the  mouth 
closed  the  while — will  produce  more  benefits 
upon  the  whole  digestive  and  respiratory  systems 
than  any  other  one  thing,  and  soon  becomes  a 
very  enjoyable  exercise.  Parents  should  teach 
this  practice  to  their  children  when  they  are  very 
young,  and  encourage  them  by  their  presence  to 
make  it  enjoyable. 


Natural  Cleanliness.  93 


CLEANLINESS. 


"Soap  and  water"  is  an  expression  popularly 
supposed  to  dispose  of  the  above  topic,  and  yet 
there  are  few  greater  errors.    While  a  clean  skin 
is  certainly  desirable,  it  is  only  a  trifle  compared 
to  clean  biood  and  magnetism.     The  first  factor 
in  cleanliness  is  the  effective  attraction  or  draw- 
ing from  the  body  by  the  proper  channels  of  all 
waste  substances  as  fast  as  expended.     This  is 
necessary  to  keep  the  exhalations  from  the  lungs 
and  skin  entirely  free  from  anything  that  can  be 
offensive  to  the  sense  of  smell.     Few  things  can 
be  so  offensive  as  a  foul  breath,  yet  nothing  is 
more  common,  even  among  those  who  consider 
themselves  the  best  of  society,  than  a  breath  that 
would  drive  a  dog  into  a  tanyard  with  shame. 
Self-  respect,  of  course,  would  not  allow  anyone 
to  be  guilty  of  it;   but  that  is  little  known  yet 
To  secure  clean  blood  and  other  liquids,  and  pro- 
mote proper  depuration,  the  sand  diet   (spoken 
of  elsewhere),  frequent  water  drinking,  the  mag- 
netizing of  the  feet,  legs  and  lower  body  with 
water  and  massage  treatment,  contact  with  the 
earth,  according  to  the  temperament,  sun  bath- 
ing and  regular  intervals  for  expelling  waste  arc 


94  Living  by  Natural  Laic. 

the  most  convenient  and  effective  means  for 
maintaining  physical  purity  and  cleanliness.  It 
is  not  merely  for  the  satisfaction  of  being  clean 
and  attractive,  but  these  practices  are  most  that 
is  needed  for  preventing  or  curing  disease,  crime 
and  immorality.  The  positive  causes  of  unclean- 
ness  include  ill-fitting  food,  especially  unsound 
meat,  close  sleeping  rooms,  drugs  and  narcotics. 
The  mere  naming  of  these  ought  to  be  sufficient. 

Bathing  is  a  factor  in  cleanliness  which  not 
only  wants  encouragement,  but  needs  a  surpris- 
ing amount  of  reform  in  method.  While  most 
people  do  not  bathe  enough,  yet  there  are  not  a 
few  who  bathe  too  much  or  in  the  wrong  way  to 
suit  their  special  temperaments.  Many  doctors 
of  the  magnetic  type  who  make  cold  water  a  fad 
are  liable  to  kill  such  patients  as  have  the  elec- 
tric temperament,  and  are  so  low  in  vitality  as 
not  to  be  able  to  react  without  injury.  Remem- 
ber that  cold  water  always  absorbs  magnetism 
from  the  body.  On  the  contrary,  hot  water  gives 
magnetic  substance  to  the  body.  The  question 
always  is,  which  does  the  body  need?  Strong, 
magnetic  bodies  usually  need  the  electric  or  cold 
treatment  to  draw  the  surplus  from  them,  while 
an  electric  body  usually  needs  stimulating  with 
hot  water,  or  else  with  a  warm  magnetic  rubbing, 
and  then  have  a  cold  water  electric  rubbing  to 


Natural  Cleanliness.  95 

draw  magnetism  to  the  skin  and  excite  the  action 
of  the  lungs  and  stomach. 

It  is  almost  sacrilege  to  speak  against  soap, 
yet  it  is  a  fact  that  soap  ought  not  to  be  used 
upon  a  pure-blooded  body,  except  to  cut  away 
oils  or  other  foreign  substance  that  may  become 
attached  to  the  hands  or  elsewhere.  It  injures 
the  finer  beauty  of  the  skin  and  makes  it  coarse 
and  rough.  All  the  skin  should  be  kept  as  non- 
conductive  as  possible  to  protect  the  body  from 
the  changes  of  the  weather. 

In  common  with  the  other  branches  of  life 
science,  the  factor  of  self-respect  is  required  to 
stimulate  an  ambition  for  cleanliness  among 
children.  Convenient  and  comfortable  opportu- 
nities for  bathing  should  be  given  when  possi- 
ble, and  everything  done  to  make  it  an  enjoyable 
exercise,  rather  than  the  bugbear  of  disagreeable 
duty  that  children  naturally  rebel  against. 


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96  Living  by  Natural  Law. 


EDUCATION. 

From  what  has  gone  before,  it  logically  fol- 
lows that  nearly  all  of  the  ills  of  society  can  be 
justly  charged  to  the  lack  of  a  suitable  education. 
Hence  we  may  inquire  as  to  what  education  has 
been,  and  what  it  should  be.  If  we  analyze  our 
American  systems  down  to  their  real  significance, 
we  will  find  that  nearly  all  of  the  unprecedented 
progress  that  we  made  during  the  last  century 
was  confined  to  the  science  of  "getting  a  living," 
but  that  its  collateral  science — that  of  living 
itself — has  been  so  neglected  that  it  is  a  much 
disputed  question  whether  we  have  really  made 
much  net  progress.  The  greater  number  and 
variety  of  diseases  and  crimes;  the  numberless 
outbreaks  in  family  relations;  the  unhappy  liti- 
gation ;  the  acute  misery  from  a  general  nervous 
derangement,  and  the  small  per  cent,  of  those 
who  succeed  in  satisfying  their  ambitions,  either 
in  business  or  in  home  life,  would  seem  to  over- 
balance all  that  has  been  gained  in  the  knowl- 
edge of  comforts,  in  the  laws  of  living,  the  treat- 
ment of  disease,  or  in  ideas  of  humanity.  I  have 
pointed  out  elsewhere,  yet  it  cannot  be  too  often 
repeated,  that  our  ignorance  of  the  laws  of 
healthy  and  happy  living  have  sprung  from  the 


Rational  Educa Hon.  97 

old  orthodox  idea  that  humanity  was  contempt- 
ible and  insignificant  in  comparison  with  the 
man-made  deity,  and  that  the  elements  of  repro- 
duction were  fair  game  for  jesting  and  vulgarity. 
Out  of  this  grew  the  general  belief,  which  we  all 
acquired  among  our  first  impressions,  that  the 
study  and  discussion  of  ourselves  was  unprofit- 
able and  improper,  and  even  immoral. 

The  dogma  of  immaculate  conception  has  also 
had  a  more  fatal  and  vicious  effect  than  many 
yet  appreciate.  The  great  secret  of  priestly 
power,  and  through  that  of  despotic  government 
with  a  heaven-endowed  crown,  for  the  past  two 
thousand  years,  has  been  the  turning  of  the  nat- 
ural instinct  for  study  away  from  all  the  realities 
of  nature,  and  confining  it  mainly  to  the  study 
of  useless  languages,  to  personal  graces,  like 
music  and  artistic  expression,  to  abstract  mathe- 
matics, and  to  such  superstitious  subterfuges  as 
the  old  so-called  astronomy.  This  kept  the  mind 
of  the  masses  helplessly  dependent  upon  a  small, 
selfish  and  despotic  class.  Even  yet,  in  all  but 
the  best  scientific  schools,  the  study  of  language, 
music  and  abstract  mathematics  is  overesti- 
mated, while  such  studies  as  chemistry,  geology, 
botany,  real  astronomy,  geometry  and  physics  in 
general — such  studies  as  would  tend  to  mental 
freedom  and  to  recognition  of  the  real  laws  and 


98  Living  by  'Natural  Law. 

consciousness  of  the  universe — are  kept  in  the 
background. 

The  freer-minded  Greeks  and  Egyptians,  and 
perhaps  other  races  of  early  times — people  who 
were  keyed  in  the  telepathic  sense — knew  more 
of  the  higher  classes  of  learning  than  any  peo- 
ples who,  for  the  past  two  thousand  years,  have 
been  controlled  by  the  modern  Greek  and  Roman 
churches.  Those  two  great  ecclesiastical  powers 
literally  destroyed  knowledge  throughout  Eu- 
rope, so  that  even  the  knowledge  of  the  round- 
ness of  the  earth,  and  the  use  of  globes  and  maps, 
was  lost  for  fifteen  hundred  years ;  and  they  can 
only  be  credited  with  saving  the  vehicle  of  learn- 
ing— literature.  The  Dark  Ages,  so-called,  with 
their  black  clouds  of  superstition  and  witchcraft, 
were  nothing  more  nor  less  than  the  product  of  a 
conspiracy  against  a  natural  system  of  educa- 
tion. Even  instruction  in  doing  and  making 
things  was  kept  strictly  apart  from  literature,  as 
a  part  of  the  general  scheme  for  subjection,  and 
this  custom  is  also  reflected  in  the  instinctive  re- 
sistance of  present  conventional  powers  and  so- 
ciety to  industrial  education. 

It  would  take  a  great  space  to  set  out  all  the 
historic  influences  which  have  united  to  prevent 
any  sensible  system  of  education,  either  for  pro- 
ducing industrial  power  or  for  mental  illumina- 


Rat  in  n  a  I  Education.  99 

tion.  A  true  education  would  consist  entirely  of 
a  rational  instruction  and  exercise  of  all  the 
seven  sense  organisms.  This  may  seem  startling 
or  absurd,  but  consider:  All  literature  is  the 
communion  of  minds  through  the  telepathic 
sense.  The  whole  domain  of  physics  is  but  the 
discovery  of  natural  laws  of  substance  and  con- 
sciousness which  we  grasp  through  the  same 
sense.  Education  in  perfumes  and  odors  is  but 
instruction  of  the  sense  of  smell.  That  of  forms, 
sizes,  colors,  and  many  other  distinctions  in  sub- 
stance, are  but  instruction  of  the  sight.  We  edu- 
cate the  hearing  to  acquire  a  knowledge  of  music 
and  assist  in  language.  We  instruct  the  taste 
sense  to  make  a  proper  choice  of  food  and  drink. 
All  our  knowledge  of  making  and  doing  things 
comes  from  instruction  of  the  touch.  And  finally, 
the  knowledge  of  how  to  create  a  far  better  and 
wiser  generation  of  people  in  the  future  than  we 
have  had  in  the  past,  or  now  have,  depends  main- 
ly upon  education  of  the  gender  sense. 

When  we  have  a  sensible  system — as  will 
come  some  time — our  general  practice  of  nega- 
tive teaching  or  suggestion— using  "don'ts"— 
will  be  dropped,  and  only  positive  terms  will  be 
used.  Don'ts  always  scatter  and  derange  the 
mental  process,  requiring  a  double  action  of  the 
mind,  while  positive  terms  concentrate  the  men- 


100  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

tal  forces  and  produce  a  direct  result.  If  you  tell 
a  child  to  carry  a  dish  carefully,  it  will  help  him 
to  do  so;  but  if  you  tell  him  "don't  drop  it,"  the 
sound  of  the  word  "drop"  will  tend  to  cause  his 
nerves  to  relax  and  he  will  be  more  apt  to  drop 
it  than  if  not  spoken  to,  for  he  has  to  exert  him- 
self to  overcome  the  reflex  influence  upon  his 
nerves. 

The  question  of  co-education,  or  division  of 
sexes  in  schools,  is  also  an  interesting  question 
in  natural  law.  If  natural  social  ideas  prevailed, 
it  would  always  be  best  to  mingle  boys  and  girls 
in  study  rooms,  but  it  requires  good  knowledge 
of  individual  temperaments — especially  of  the 
electric  or  magnetic  types — so  as  to  maintain  har- 
mony in  the  nervous  system;  because  no  people 
can  be  so  close  without  causing  magnetic  cur- 
rents to  develop  that  will  be  either  harmonizing 
or  distracting.  As  a  general  rule,  the  seating  to- 
gether of  two  children  who  have  complementary 
types  will  keep  both  in  a  better  condition  for 
study  and  help  to  maintain  the  health  of  both, 
especially  those  of  the  older  ages.  On  the  other 
hand,  when  two  children  who  are  both  very  mag- 
netic, or  are  strongly  acid,  are  placed  together, 
they  are  nearly  sure  to  irritate  and  excite  each 
other  and  make  both  either  restless  or  drowsy. 
(By  the  way,  this  rule  holds  good  between  the 


Rational  Education.  101 

sexes  among  adults  when  seated  together  in  as- 
semblages.) In  class  room  work,  however,  there 
are  other  and  more  subtle  forces  to  be  consid- 
ered. If  it  were  not  for  the  lack  of  necessary 
association  out  of  school,  it  would  be  best  to  keep 
boys  and  girls  apart — save  possibly  for  instruc- 
tion in  abstract  mathematics — and  the  teacher 
should  be  of  the  same  sex  as  the  class.  Only  un- 
der such  a  condition  can  there  be  a  close  com- 
munion of  thought  sufficient  to  convey  ideas 
easily,  and  also  to  preserve  freedom  from  re- 
straint in  expression  when  any  question  involv- 
ing the  gender  nature  arises.  Again,  any  teacher, 
especially  those  who  have  a  normal  gender  na- 
ture, will  unconsciously  use  a  different  expres- 
sion and  apply  different  coloring  to  ideas  when 
dealing  with  a  class  of  one  sex  than  with  the 
other.  The  general  practice  of  employing  only 
women  for  class-room  work,  even  in  high  schools, 
and  their  almost  universal  ignorance  of  the  mas- 
culine mind,  is  responsible  in  a  large  degree  for 
the  general  poor  results  of  a  boy's  school  life 
in  comparison  with  that  of  the  girl's.  With  our 
present  practice  of  employing  only  female  teach- 
ers, it  becomes  most  highly  important  that  the 
teachers  themselves  should  not  be  allowed  to  re- 
main so  densely  ignorant  of  the  realities  of  life, 
but  should  have  a  phrenologic  and  sex  education. 


102  Living  by  Natural  Law. 


RELIGION. 

Vitosophy  gives  a  new  force  and  meaning  to 
the  word  religion.  It  destroys  the  fetish  of  fear, 
the  idol  to  lie  before  prostrate,  the  dogma  that 
has  filled  the  world  with  wars  and  quarrels,  the 
shield  of  the  hypocrite  and  the  business  man's 
humbug  to  satisfy  the  women  and  children.  In- 
stead of  all  these,  religion  becomes  a  fact  of  law 
and  substance. 

Religion  can  best  be  defined  as  "the  science 
of  relationship  between  the  universal  conscious- 
ness and  each  individual  consciousness."  Its  me- 
dium is  the  telepathic  sense,  and  it  only  attains 
its  full  force  when  all  the  other  senses  are  in 
abeyance.  When  we  feel  most  conscious  of  being 
an  indivisible  part  of  a  universe  of  intelligence, 
everywhere  and  forever  filled  with  purpose,  with 
order,  with  harmony,  with  beauty,  with  affec- 
tion— when  Ave  sense  an  infinite  source  of  all  real- 
ities, unlimited  and  impersonal,  yet  as  vital  and 
real  as  any  of  the  concreted  forms  and  personali- 
ties that  are  able  to  impress  our  coarser  senses- 
then,  indeed,  we  experience  a  real  religion. 

Such  a  religion  would  give  to  a  normal  man 
no  feeling  of  repugnance,  of  avoidance  or  embar- 
rassment.    It   would    provoke    no    quarrels.     It 


Religion.  103 

would  cause  no  estrangements.  It  would  pre- 
vent all  caste.  It  would  build  up  character,  self- 
respect,  and  respect  for  all  humanity  in  the  con- 
sciousness of  human  brotherhood.  It  would  also 
destroy  the  machinery  of  all  oppression  and  sel- 
fish authority,  but  save  and  purify  all  institu- 
tions that  serve  the  natural  needs  and  desires  of 
the  human  mind. 

For  reasons  which  I  have  not  space  to  note  in 
this  work,  the  Christian  world  has  never  been 
able  to  grasp  the  full  sense  of  reality  in  Divine 
consciousness.  Perhaps  few  of  the  present  gen- 
eration can  grasp  the  idea  of  an  unlimited  and 
impersonal  intelligence  that  is  at  the  same  time 
the  source  and  the  sum  of  all  thought  and  in- 
stinct, of  every  concreted  mind  or  intelligence. 
Only  those  who  are  fearless  and  independent  can 
sense  the  fact  that  there  is  no  dividing  line  be- 
tween self  and  the  universe,  and  that  there  can 
be  no  room  for  any  agent  to  enter  and  dictate, 
but  suggestions  by  others  may  help  a  person  to 
grasp  and  sense  the  fact.  Only  such,  also,  are 
yet  able  to  stand  firmly  and  confidently  upon 
their  own  feet  and  feel  no  need  of  any  authority 
or  agent  to  give  them  complete  harmony  and  sat- 
isfaction with  the  universe.  Such  a  sense  can- 
not be  well  expressed  in  language,  for  the  class  of 
terms  in  common  use  all  imply  personality  or 


104  Living  by  Natural  haw. 

limitation.     No  sense  religion  can  use  personal 
pronouns  to  express  Divinity. 

Such  a  religion  is  a  natural  part  of  our  daily 
life.  The  contemplation  of  our  relationship  with 
all  life  and  thought,  whether  in  being  or  form- 
less, whether  it  expresses  itself  in  animal  or  in 
vegetable  life,  whether  in  our  own  careers  or  in 
the  motions  of  the  outer  worlds— this  is  the  real- 
ity of  religion.  And  yet,  while  we  have  the  royal 
right  to  reject  every  other  dictum  or  belief  that 
does  not  harmonize  with  our  own  reason,  com- 
mon sense  requires  us  to  recognize  every  relig- 
ious creed,  no  matter  how  crude  or  absurd  it 
may  seem,  as  the  instinctive  effort  of  some  class 
of  minds  to  recognize  their  source,  and  to  treat 
every  such  effort  with  the  grave  respect  we  owe 
to  everything  human. 

This  topic  carries  with  it  the  question  of  life 
and  death. 

Each  human  life  springs  from  the  conjunc- 
tion of  intelligences.  It  is  idle  to  search  for  the 
original  impulse  by  inductive  reasoning  and 
chemical  analysis.  A  life  is  not  a  creation  in 
the  broadest  sense,  but  a  concretion.  It  cannot 
be  an  addition  to  the  universe,  though  it  may  be 
to  our  own  planet. 

Every  human  life,  like  every  concretion  of 
matter  and  mind,  whether  a  planet  or  less,  has  a 


Religion.  105 

normal  course  to  run.  It  is  born  and  grows ;  it 
attracts  or  loves;  it  perpetuates  itself  through 
its  power  of  reproduction,  and  then  in  time  loses 
its  power  of  attraction.  The  law  of  disintegra- 
tion sets  in,  the  mass  and  consciousness  disor- 
ganize, until,  as  a  final  stage,  all  matter  and 
thought  become  not  lost  nor  lessened,  but  merged 
again  in  the  universe  of  reality. 

Nature  has  made  the  beautiful  provision  that 
as  the  life  principle  loses  its  power  of  attraction 
and  growth  the  desire  for  further  life  shall  fade, 
until  at  the  end  the  desire  shall  entirely  cease 
before  the  consciousness  itself  is  dissolved. 

It  is  now  almost  universally  supposed  that 
the  desire  for  a  future  life  is  a  natural  desire,  but 
this  is  only  one  of  the  errors  that  has  sprung 
from  the  Christian  contempt  for  humanity,  the 
gender  sense  and  reproduction.  When  our  chil- 
dren satisfy  our  ambitions  and  desires  in  power 
and  wisdom,  we  shall  be  satisfied  to  have  them 
absorb  our  life,  and  nature  will  make  us  feel  that 
in  them  we  shall  live  through  all  life. 


106  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

LAWS  OF  REPRODUCTION. 

The  highest  possibilities  in  the  life  of  a 
woman  lie  in  the  power  of  creating  a  new  life, 
and  she  can  only  give  her  child  the  highest  en- 
dowment of  character,  health,  beauty  and  intel- 
ligence when  she  is  able  to  feel  a  perfect  sense 
of  purity  and  self-respect  during  all  the  process 
of  conception  and  creation.  She  must  be  allowed 
to  sense  the  fact  that  the  Divine  intelligence  has 
designed  and  provided  from  the  beginning  for  all 
the  instincts  and  impulses  that  she  feels,  and  she 
can  only  feel  this  when  the  father  shows  an 
equally  grave,  tender  and  delicate  sense  of  his 
responsibility,  and  is  entirely  free  from  all  those 
feelings  of  sportiveness  and  indelicacy  regard- 
ing sex  phenomena  which  the  errors  of  Chris- 
tianity have  made  almost  universal. 

As  children  are  the  parents  of  the  coming 
fathers  and  mothers,  so  the  only  way  to  reform 
the  parents  of  the  future  is  to  educate  the  chil- 
dren of  to-day,  and  the  writer  assures  you  that 
any  sensible  boy  or  girl  can  be  educated  so  as  to 
be  forever  free  from  immorality  or  impurity,  for 
nature  itself  is  always  trying  to  produce  that  re- 
sult in  the  mind  of  every  child.  As  education 
consists  of  impressions,  the  sense  and  character 
education   of  a  child   cannot  begin   too  early. 


Laws  of  Rejiroduction.  107 

Even  in  infancy  it  should  be  taught  that  clothing 
is  not  a  natural  requirement  of  propriety,  but 
only  of  protection.  Every  part  of  its  body  should 
receive  every  possible  degree  of  liberty,  freedom, 
respect  and  healthy  culture.  Such  a  system  of 
education  should  be  possible  in  the  family  life, 
even  if  it  cannot  be  obtruded  upon  a  purblind 
public. 

The  reader  has  doubtless  observed  before  this 
that  the  general  purpose  of  this  work  is  to  point 
out  the  real  serious  deficiencies  of  our  social  life, 
the  defects  in  all  our  conventional  reform  meth- 
ods, and  finally,  to  point  out  the  easiest  and  most 
practical  methods  for  correcting  all  errors,  and 
of  restoring  or  securing  harmony  in  all  phases 
of  life.  There  is  a  growing  conclusion  among  the 
best  and  freest  students  of  life  that  the  portion 
of  existence  and  growth  that  takes  place  before 
birth  has  not  been  sufficiently  appreciated  as  a 
foundation  for  the  life  to  follow.  While  most 
people  marry  with  a  more  or  less  conscious  de- 
sire and  purpose  to  raise  a  family  of  children 
(all  would  if  they  were  normal),  they  have  never 
been  taught — in  our  Anglo-Saxon  life,  at  least — 
to  have  that  natural,  grave  and  deep  respect  for 
human  life,  for  parentage  and  for  childreu,  as 
would  prompt  them  to  make  the  necessary  study 
of  the  many  problems  involved  in  the  creation  of 


108  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

progeny.  They  have  not  learned,  as  nature 
prompts,  to  look  for  their  future  life  in  the  lives 
which  they  create.  They  know  almost  nothing  of 
the  vast  system  of  influences  or  electro-magnetic 
forces  which  flow  in  and  out  and  through  the 
father  and  mother  bodies  to  form  the  new  con- 
cretion of  substance  and  consciousness  that  we 
call  a  child.  They  do  not  appreciate  the  fact 
that  every  impurity  in  the  blood,  every  imperfec- 
tion in  the  shape  of  the  skull,  every  weak  or  ab- 
normal organ  of  sense,  every  selfish,  coarse  or 
vulgar  thought  in  the  mind  of  either  parent,  in- 
jures the  foundation  of  life  in  the  new  child. 
Nor  do  they  know  much  of  the  singular  provis- 
ions of  nature  by  which  the  father  is  able  to  send 
such  currents  of  magnetism  from  his  own  mind 
and  body  through  the  mind  and  body  of  the 
mother  to  the  unborn  child  as  to  produce  an 
equal  contribution  with  the  mother  to  its  mind 
and  substance. 

A  certain  general  error  regarding  births  pro- 
duces serious  effects  upon  society.  It  is  gener- 
ally assumed  that  nature  makes  the  act  of  giving 
birth  a  period  of  great  and  dreadful  danger  and 
suffering  to  the  mother,  so  that  parentage  is 
avoided  and  prevented  by  very  many  women  who 
would  be  better  and  happier  with  children,  while 
most  of  those  who  do  produce  go  through  the  pe- 


Laws  of  Reproduction.  109 

riod  of  gestation  in  such  a  state  of  fear  and 
dread  as  to  keep  the  whole  system  weak  and  un- 
fit for  the  effort,  The  law  of  nature  is,— and  it 
tries  to  prompt  both  parents  to  that  end, — that 
every  sense  and  organism  of  the  body  shall  be 
developed  to  the  highest  degree  of  force  and  ex- 
pression, like  some  athlete  training  for  some 
supreme  effort ;  so  that  when  the  time  comes  for 
the  final  effort  by  the  mother — as  with  the  ath- 
lete— all  the  forces  of  the  body  will  combine  with 
nature  in  a  great  and  confident  effort  that  shall 
carry  with  it  all  the  joy  of  successful  and  certain 
accomplishment.  This  proposition  accords  with 
the  written  testimony  and  experience  of  one  of 
the  wisest  women  of  the  last  century,  Mrs.  Eliz- 
abeth Cady  Stanton. 

One  most  interesting  law  of  preparation  for 
birth  is  only  understood  by  vitosophists.  Dur- 
ing the  period  of  gestation,  and  also  of  lactation, 
nature  gives  to  the  mother  a  special  electric  or 
absorbing  property,  so  as  to  make  an  unusual 
draft  upon  all  the  magnetism  of  the  male  parent, 
in  order  that  he  make  an  equal  contribution  to 
the  construction  of  the  child  and  have  an  equal 
share  in  its  attributes,  likeness  and  affection. 

Very  few  people  appreciate  the  importance  of 
selecting  such^  cjonsort  as  will  make  a  proper 
combinatiolf^^?i|&al  and  mental  attributes 


110  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

for  the  production  of  progeny,  or  know  anything 
of  the  many  ways  in  which  the  various  attri- 
butes of  the  gender  nature  are  expressed  in  the 
face,  skull  and  form  of  body  so  as  to  be  rec- 
ognized by  an  educated  observer.  As  a  result  of 
all  this  ignorance,  it  very  rarely  happens  that 
parents  ever  exercise  as  much  care  and  wisdom 
as  they  might  in  preparing  themselves  and  each 
other  so  as  to  be  most  highly  fit  for  the  period  of 
conception,  the  most  important  stage  of  each 
new  life.  The  school  of  vitosophy  has  discovered 
and  teaches  the  laws  of  natural  conception  so  as 
to  govern  the  sex,  the  vitality  and  health,  the  in- 
telligence and  character,  and  to  modify  or  avoid 
in  a  large  degree  the  faults  and  imperfections  of 
the  parents.  Splendid  results  in  thousands  of 
families  already  testify  to  the  crowning  wisdom 
of  this  common-sense  system  of  reformed  educa- 
tion. In  comparison  with  this  reform,  all  the 
other  reform  efforts  of  society  seem  like  a  mere 
scratching  upon  the  surface.  Which  is  easier 
and  most  important,  to  produce  a  normal,  intel- 
ligent child  that  cannot  easily  make  anything 
but  a  good  and  valuable  man  or  woman,  or  to 
worry  and  pray  for  a  lifetime  over  some  crooked- 
headed  mischance  in  the  effort  to  keep  him  out 
of  jail  and  from  being  called  a  criminal,  or  from 
being  called  a  lunatic  and  buried  in  an  asylum? 


Laws  of  Reproduction.  Ill 

It  is  not  within  the  scope  of  this  volume  to 
enter  at  length  into  the  natural  laws  for  prepar- 
ing and  exercising  parentage.  It  would  be  possi- 
ble to  make  a  large  volume  of  important  infor- 
mation and  advice  upon  this  topic,  which  not  one 
in  a  hundred  now  properly  understands.  What 
I  have  given  is  intended  to  awake  society  to  the 
possibility  of  a  better  generation,  and  to  excite 
its  ambition  for  better  results  than  in  the  past. 
While  vitosophy  has  doubtless  gone  more  deeply 
and  clearly  into  human  science  than  any  other 
school,  yet  all  intelligent  teachers  of  phrenologic 
science  can  give  invaluable  aid  and  instruction 
to  any  who  are  open  and  free-minded  enough  to 
appreciate  it,  and  have  character  enough  to  de- 
sire it.  The  great  work,  however,  is  to  prepare 
the  public  mind  for  real  essential  knowledge  by 
breaking  down  the  selfish  forces  of  conservatism 
and  authority.  It  is  going  to  take  generations  of 
time  yet  to  fully  annihilate  the  great  mountain 
of  vulgar,  sportive,  silly,  contemptuous  and  gen- 
erally immoral  attitude  of  Christian  (?)  society 
toward  reproduction  and  its  gender  sense. 


112  Living  by  Natural  Laic. 


LAW  OF  RACES. 

The  question  is  often  asked,  "What  consti- 
tutes a  race,  and  what  is  the  significance  of  a 
race?"  I  find  much  in  life  study  and  in  history 
to  lead  to  this  conclusion:  A  race  is  a  concre- 
tion of  various  racial  fragments  about  some  new 
idea  or  conception.  Such  racial  germs  may  be 
either  religious,  social,  political,  commercial,  or 
something  growing  out  of  the  expression  of  any 
of  the  senses.  Under  fairly  normal  conditions, 
such  an  aggregation  will  develop  and  grow  until 
its  idea  is  developed  to  its  full  capacity  for  ex- 
pression, or  so  far  as  collateral  knowledge  will 
permit.  When  this  result  is  attained,  the  groAV- 
ing  and  attracting  power  of  the  people  ceases; 
they  no  longer  look  to  the  future,  and  they  grad- 
ually lose  their  cohesion  and  character,  until  in 
time  they  are  disrupted  by  internal  convulsions 
and  outside  enemies.  When  it  is  not  broken  by 
outside  forces,  and  its  own  people  are  not  war- 
like, it  may  last  indefinitely,  growing  weaker  and 
more  useless,  until  it  becomes  a  mere  attendant 
of  the  soil.  In  this  great  class  we  may  safely  in- 
clude what  we  call  the  natives  of  America,  Aus- 
tralia, Africa  and  parts  of  Asia,  as  well  as  the 
East  India  Islands.     These  are  undoubtedly  de- 


Lata  of  Races.  113 

scendants  of  very  remote  races,  all  at  some  time 
superior  in  power,  knowledge  and  character  to 
their  present  representatives.  The  Philippine 
Islands  contain  the  remnants  of  apparently  sev- 
eral distinct  races,  each  at  different  times  hav- 
ing been  in  the  forefront  of  human  life.  In  most 
cases,  however,  it  is  probable  that  the  decaying 
races  have  been  rent  into  fragments  and  those 
caught  and  absorbed  by  virile  and  growing  races, 
or  else  uniting  with  fragments  of  other  races  to 
develop  a  new  race  about  some  new  conception. 

Such,  in  brief,  is  doubtless  the  general  history 
of  nearly  all  races.  As  we  glance  over  known 
history,  we  find  the  dominating  idea  of  early 
India  to  have  been  the  development  of  the  tele- 
pathic sense,  with  its  almost  unlimited  psychic 
powers.  Later  there  developed  out  of  reaction- 
ary fragments  of  the  Indians,  and  of  sun  wor- 
shipping tribes  further  west,  the  great  Semitic 
race,  having  the  development  and  worship  of  the 
gender  sense  for  its  germinal  idea.  More  re- 
cently, and  in  sequence  with  the  other  two,  Ave 
have  the  Christian  idea  of  demeaning  the  gender 
sense,  and  through  that  the  whole  man,  in  order 
to  glorify  the  personal  deity  of  the  Semites  by 
contrast. 

It  should  be  observed,  however,  that  the  dif- 
ferent classes  of  germinal  ideas  have  led  to  dif- 


114  Living  by  Natural  Lam. 

fering  forms  of  racial  expression,  so  that  the 
same  people  have  sometimes  been  identified  with 
two  or  more  races.  This  is  illustrated  by  the 
Jews,  who  are  all  of  one  religious  race,  but  merge 
themselves  into  various  political  races. 

But,  aside  from  religious  or  political  foci, 
there  have  been  various  others  that  have  caused 
great  peoples  to  spring  forth.  The  wonderful 
Egyptian  race  seems  to  have  been  founded  upon 
the  idea  of  developing  mathematics — especially 
astronomy  and  geometry.  All  of  their  great 
racial  labor  proves  it.  Their  pyramids  and  other 
great  constructions  were  built  in  accordance  with 
vast  geometric  formulas.  Their  calendar  was 
founded  upon  a  revolution  of  planets  which  re- 
quired more  than  1400  years  for  each  cycle. 
Again,  in  the  Roman  empire  we  find  the  con- 
trolling instinct  of  political  and  colonial  domin- 
ion. Greece  seemed  to  be  governed  by  the  in- 
stinct for  artistic  expression.  Great  Britain, 
out  of  numerous  racial  remnants,  rose  into 
strength  and  greatness  under  the  impulse  of  ma- 
rine and  commercial  dominion. 

Our  new  American  race — for  it  is  a  new  race 
— was  the  outgrowth  of  the  natural  instinct  for 
human  equality  and  equal  rights  that  had  been 
slowly  fermenting  in  the  English  and  German 
speaking  countries  for  centuries,   until   it  was 


Law  of  Races.  115 

crystallized  into  living  consciousness  by  the 
genius  of  Thomas  Payne,  whose  epoch-making 
letters,  called  "Common  Sense,"  transformed  the 
colonial  rebellion  into  a  racial  revolution. 

I  digress  for  a  moment  to  touch  upon  a  chap- 
ter of  history  which  I  believe  has  never  been 
written.  Ever  since  the  Restoration,  in  1660, 
every  Englishman  who  felt  dominated  by  the  in- 
stinct for  equality  had  been  driven  from  his 
home  to  the  American  colonies;  and  unto  this 
day  no  loyal  Englishman  can  sense  the  idea  of 
literal  equality  of  all  human  rights.  When  the 
American  revolution  became  an  assured  success, 
there  began  a  general  readjustment  among  Eng- 
lish and  German  speaking  peoples.  Those  who 
felt  the  American  idea  came  to  the  United  States. 
Those  already  here,  who  would  not  accept  such 
a  radical  advance,  went  back  to  England,  or  to 
Canada,  where  they  could  have  freedom  of  ac- 
tion ;  or  if  not  able  to  emigrate,  endured  suppres- 
sion at  home.  And  ever  since  the  Revolution  the 
same  movements  have  been  going  on.  Equality 
loving  people  from  Great  Britain,  France  and 
Germany,  and,  later  on,  from  all  the  European 
countries,  have  been  steadily  coming  to  the  land 
of  equality.  Ask  those  immigrants  who  know 
their  own  minds  whether  this  is  true,  and  observe 
the  answer.     On  the  other  hand,  study  the  mo- 


116  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

lives  of  those  who  have  gone  back  to  the  old 
countries  and  note  how  universally  they  have 
been  governed  by  the  reactionary  idea  of  caste 
and  class. 

An  exception  to  the  foregoing  propositions 
regarding  our  own  country  must  be  observed  in 
the  former  slave  states  of  the  South.  The  South- 
ern colonies  were  driven  into  the  rebellion  and 
through  the  revolution  by  the  great  numbers  of 
Scotch  and  Irish  refugees  from  British  tyranny, 
in  spite  of  the  loyalist  aristocratic  land  owners 
and  their  dependents.  The  Southern  English 
never  accepted  the  ideas  of  equality  which  in- 
spired the  Northern  states  and  controlled  the 
new  government.  Having  possession  of  the  land, 
they  were  soon  able  to  drive  out  the  less  provi- 
dent Irish  and  Scotch  pioneers  to  the  North,  or 
to  the  mountains,  and  then  founded  an  oligarchy 
of  unequal  rights  upon  slave  labor. 

Slavery  made  the  denial  of  equality  the  in- 
evitable corner  stone  of  society  wherever  it 
reached;  and  now  that  slavery  itself  is  dead, 
the  deeper  principle  still  burns  fiercely.  The 
South  is  not  yet  American  for  that  reason,  and 
the  presence  of  the  black  race  problem  maintains 
a  dark  cloud  over  that  portion  of  our  country 
and  makes  anxious  the  minds  of  all  who  look  far 
and  deeply  into  the  future. 


Significance  of  Humamty.  117 


SIGNIFICANCE    OF    HUMANITY. 

The  real  place  and  function  of  humanity  in 
the  Divine  purpose  is  a  favorite  study  among 
the  deepest  thinkers.  Many  will  think  it  pre- 
sumption to  attempt  solving  such  a  question, 
but,  if  my  logic  has  proven  anything,  it  is  the  nat- 
ural and  inalienable  right  of  any  man  to  study 
anything  and  question  anything  that  he  has  a 
desire  to  know,  and  which  does  not  intrude  upon 
the  rights  and  privacy  of  anyone  else.  Few  peo- 
ple look  far  or  deeply,  and  the  conscious  ambi- 
tions and  desires  of  the  great  mass  are  very  lim- 
ited. One  of  the  most  shallow  and  selfish,  yet 
well  known,  is  to  merely  "get  rich."  One  run- 
ning with  that  on  all  fours  is  to  "have  a  good 
time."  The  more  common,  and  one  perfectly  nat- 
ural— so  far  as  it  goes — is  to  found  a  home  and 
have  a  family  of  children.  Secondary  to  that, 
with  most  good  people,  is  the  desire  to  be  useful 
and  helpful  in  the  various  ways  open  to  the  man 
and  citizen  according  to  the  radiating  or  recep- 
tive impulses  of  his  nature.  But  beyond  all 
this,  back  of  the  man  and  his  family,  back  of  all 
political  bounds,  back  of  nations  and  races,  lies 
a  great  underlying  consciousness  which  tells  hu- 
manity to  occupy  and  inhabit  the  earth;  to 
shape  it,  to  dress  it,  to  cultivate  it,  until  it  be- 


118  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

comes  a  garden  of  perfection,  so  far  as  the  con- 
ditions of  circumstance  will  permit,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  law  of  full  development  for  every 
order  of  being  in  the  universe.  To  accomplish 
all  this  will  take  long  ages — too  long  for  us  to 
imagine  its  finish.  Through  unknown  ages — too 
many  and  too  long  for  us  to  intelligently  guess — 
has  the  human  race  been  working  upward,  some- 
times with  wonderful  thought  and  power,  yet 
always  until  now  with  fatal  limitations  of  ignor- 
ance. Only  within  the  last  century  has  the  dis- 
covery of  applied  forces  made  it  possible  to  begin 
world-wide  movements  for  broad  and  high  ad- 
vances in  civilization.  In  a  period  when  labor  is 
so  jealous  and  fearful  of  competition,  perhaps 
few  appreciate  how  little  permanent  work  is  yet 
done,  and  how  much  there  is  to  do.  Even  in  the 
power  of  producing  food,  clothing  and  warmth, 
the  possibilities  of  the  earth  are  as  yet  but  lightly 
touched.  All  of  our  applications  of  natural  force 
are  as  yet  primitive  and  are  still  capable  of  al- 
most unlimited  increase  of  power  and  fineness. 
Our  knowledge  of  processes  for  enlarging  and 
improving  food  supplies  is  very  limited.  At  the 
present  time  the  waste  of  food  values  through 
ignorance  of  preparation  is  greater  than  the  con- 
sumption. Still  further,  the  waste  of  human 
effort  through  the  production  and  consumption 


Significance  of  Humanity.  119 

of  liquors,  tobaccos,  drugs,  and  a  thousand  other 
things,  leaves  a  small  net  result  for  all  the  en- 
ergy exerted  by  the  human  family.  And  finally, 
the  loss  of  human  potential  force  by  unnecessary 
weakness,  disease,  poor  birth  and  early  death, 
discount  most  heavily  from  the  sum  of  human 
power.  All  these  defects  and  drawbacks  have  to 
be  corrected  before  humanity  can  carry  out  its 
deepest  instincts  and  greatest  destiny. 

I  may  here  best  touch  upon  a  collateral  ques- 
tion which  many  thinkers  have  argued,  but,  so 
far  as  I  have  seen,  none  of  them  have  solved. 
That  is  what  is  called  the  "Malthusian"  ques- 
tion, or  the  law  of  population.  It  is  assumed 
that,  in  general  terms,  the  law  of  increase  of  life 
is  in  a  geometric  ratio,  while  the  increase  of  food 
is  limited  by  space,  and  hence  that  the  population 
is  bound  to  overcome  the  capacity  of  sustenance, 
and  result  in  wholesale  starvation  or  mutual  de- 
struction. The  fallacy  of  this  assumption  lies  in 
the  ignorance  of  certain  finer  laws  of  impulse  in 
the  phenomena  of  reproduction.  I  have  not  at- 
tempted to  deal  with  that  phase  of  science  in 
extenso,  as  I  may  in  some  future  work,  but,  in 
brief,  it  is  that  when  society  becomes  intelligent 
in  its  social  relations,  the  number,  as  well  as  the 
quality  and  character  of  children  will  become  a 
definitely  fixed  product  of  rational  purpose,  and 


120  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

only  such  will  be  born  as  parents  can  see  oppor- 
tunity for.  As  there  can  be  at  most  but  half  as 
many  families  as  there  are  of  adults,  an  average 
of  two  children  per  family  would  not  permit  any 
increase  in  population.  As  there  would  inevit- 
ably be  some  accidents  and  failures,  the  average 
would  always  approach  three  children  per  fam- 
ily without  increase,  and  yet  deprive  no  one  of 
the  satisfaction  and  enjoyment  of  married  and 
parental  life.  When  people  become  really  wise 
they  will  be  satisfied  with  fewer  children,  and 
will  feel  far  more  happy  and  safe  in  the  posses- 
sion of  those  they  do  have.  In  saying  that  chil- 
dren will  become  the  product  of  rational  purpose 
instead  of  blundering  chance,  as  all  admit  to  be 
the  general  rule,  I  mean  that,  in  an  age  of  pure 
reason,  parents  will  plan  for  their  families  as 
well  as  for  their  houses,  according  to  the  condi- 
tions and  opportunities  which  they  see  before 
them.  This  proposition  fairly  amplified,  under 
the  conditions  I  have  foretold,  cannot  fail  to  dis- 
pose of  the  Malthusian  problem. 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         121 


NATURAL  LAW  IN  SOCIAL  PROBLEMS. 

The  problem  of  what  is  natural  law  or  nat- 
ural instinct  in  the  various  social  relations  of  the 
human  family  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  de- 
partments  of  human  knowledge.  The  subject  is 
boundless,  and,  as  the  keys  of  human  science  that 
I  have  described  in  this  work  come  into  use,  it 
will  develop  a  new  field  of  higher  literature.  The 
space  I  have  reserved  for  this  topic  will  contain 
but  a  few  of  my  discoveries  and  conclusions,  and 
is  only  a  bare  statement,  without  attempting  to 
give  much  of  the  long  course  of  reasoning  or  the 
many  experiments  and  evidences  by  which  I  have 
reached  them. 

To  give  these  conclusions  in  the  best  manner, 
I  will  first  undertake  to  say  what  a  rational  so- 
ciety would  be  if  the  teachings  of  vitosophy  be- 
came generally  understood  and  accepted.  In  the 
first  place,  the  great  fundamental  requirement  of 
society  is  to  regain  self-respect,  Nature  makes 
that  the  duty  and  privilege  of  every  man,  woman 
and  child.  Every  normal  boy  and  girl  can  be 
taught  to  feel  such  a  degree  of  respect  for  self 
and  respect  for  others  that  it  would  be  impos- 
sible for  either  to  be  negligent  of  his  own  health, 
neatness,  conduct,  manners  or  character.  They 
would  not  be  mean  to  themselves  nor  to  others. 


122  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

They  would  never  allow  themselves  to  get  into 
any  dirty  or  unhealthy  habits.  They  would  make 
the  doctor,  the  dentist,  and  even  the  druggist, 
rare  and  incidental.  The  saloon,  brewery,  to- 
bacco shop,  patent  medicine  distillery,  the  jail, 
the  police  court  and  the  insane  asylum  would  all 
become  obsolete.  Such  children  would  neces- 
sarily appreciate  with  grave  seriousness,  yet  with 
new  courage  and  hope,  the  infinite  fact  of  being 
in  existence.  They  would  consult  the  best  ex- 
perts in  human  science  for  advice  in  finding  their 
best  place  in  life,  where  they  would  at  the  same 
time  do  the  best  for  themselves  and  for  society, 
and  so  avoid  the  present  fate  of  the  vast  major- 
ity of  men,  that  of  partial  or  total  failure  in 
business  or  professional  life.  They  would  also 
study  with  the  same  care,  and  consult  with  the 
same  advice,  for  the  founding  of  the  home.  On 
reaching  maturity  they  would  select  their  con- 
sorts with  such  sense  and  care  as  to  leave  no  fur- 
ther employment  for  the  divorce  courts,  They 
would  keep  themselves  so  healthful,  clean,  re- 
spectful and  unselfish  that  they  would  not  re- 
quire any  statute  laws  nor  terrors  of  the  church 
to  preserve  faithfulness  to  the  marriage  rela- 
tion. They  would  appreciate  the  fact  that  the 
greatest  possibilities  in  the  life  of  a  man  or 
woman  lie  in  the  power  of  reproduction,  and  they 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         123 

would  prepare  themselves  and  each  other  with 
every  care  from  the  beginning  for  that  great 
work.  As  the  care  of  their  children  came  to 
them,  they  would  study  each  child's  nature,  his 
senses  and  temperaments,  as  our  new  science 
teaches,  and  seek  to  cultivate  and  develop  every 
sense  organism  to  its  highest  possible  degree  of 
health  and  expression.  They  would  teach  them, 
not  to  grope  in  the  graveyards  of  death,  but  to 
look  for  a  live  rational  religion  in  the  gardens 
of  life.  The  whole  family  life  would  be  closer, 
finer,  purer,  healthier  than  ever  prevails  at  pres- 
ent. And  as  the  close  of  life  dreAV  near  they 
would  find  that  death  had  no  terrors.  Being  sat- 
isfied with  a  useful  lifework,  well  accomplished, 
feeling  that  their  consciousness  had  become  im- 
mortal in  the  spirit  of  their  children,  they  would 
find  as  the  vibration  of  body  and  brain  grew  slow 
that  the  desire  and  the  care  for  life  was  fading 
away;  and,  as  the  great  event  of  a  real,  natural 
death  took  place,  both  the  dying  and  the  surviv- 
ing would  discover  that  all  the  terrors  of  death 
had  disappeared  from  the  human  family. 

It  is,  however,  easy  to  say  what  society  can 
be  when  reformed,  or  even  what  it  will  be  under 
the  normal  course  of  evolution;  but  in  attempt- 
ing any  practical  work  we  must  remember  that 
people  cannot  change  their  lifetime  ideas  very 


124  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

rapidly.  They  are  apt  to  regard  any  change  as 
discrediting  the  teachings  of  their  parents,  their 
teachers  and  their  church;  and  most  persons 
have  their  sensibilities  so  easily  affected  and  em- 
barrassed by  any  reference  to  the  gender  sense 
that  they  cannot  think  rationally  upon  anything 
which  touches  it.  Therefore,  anyone  who  would 
undertake  to  teach  others  how  to  regard  the  so- 
cial relations  in  a  natural  and  healthful  way 
must  study  the  present  ideas  of  a  person  and 
treat  them  with  respect  and  consideration,  and 
avoid  too  extreme  and  radical  expression  of 
views. 

In  taking  up  the  laws  that  should  govern  the 
several  social  relations,  the  seven  senses  must 
always  be  kept  in  mind  as  the  primal  factors,  and 
the  several  temperaments  should  be  regarded  as 
the  essential  keys  of  adjustment. 

Business  partnership  usually  involves  mainly 
the  telepathic  sense,  as  the  parties  are  not  sup- 
posed to  come  into  very  close  contact.  It  is  there- 
fore essential  that  the  parties  should  study  each 
other's  thoughts,  ideas,  interests,  prejudices, 
ethics,  honesty,  morality,  etc.,  to  see  whether  the 
two  natures  will  harmonize;  and  people  ought 
never  to  go  into  any  important  partnership  in- 
volving their  main  fortunes  and  their  life  work 
until  it  is  evident  that  they  will  so  harmonize. 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         125 

You  will  find  that  this  harmony  will  be  con- 
stantly affected,  and  the  mental  processes  of  each 
will  also  be  affected  by  the  several  temperaments. 
When  the  work  of  the  partnership  includes  both 
constructive  and  trading  features,  the  construc- 
tion work — and  also  transportation — will  re- 
quire a  partner  who  is  more  positive  and  strong 
in  the  motive  than  in  the  vital  or  mental  temper- 
aments. To  drive  work  well,  he  also  needs  to 
have  a  magnetic,  acid  temperament,  except  that 
his  chin  should  be  broad,  strong  and  prominent, 
showing  a  strong  circulation.  The  receptive  part 
of  a  business,  including  the  money  taking  and 
office  work,  calls  for  more  of  the  opposite  set  of 
temperaments — electric,  alkaloid,  vital  and  men- 
tal. The  planning  or  laying  out  of  work  gives 
the  best  scope  for  joint  action  of  the  two  sets  of 
temperaments. 

Friendship  is  subject  to  many  conditions  and 
experiences,  many  combinations  of  temperament, 
which  all  affect  harmony.  Among  intelligent 
adults,  the  harmony  of  the  telepathic  sense,  or 
the  ability  to  appreciate  and  enjoy  each  other's 
minds,  is  the  main  essential,  but  this  usually  re- 
quires more  or  less  difference  in  the  several  tem- 
peraments. In  the  friendship  of  sex  opposites, 
the  most  interesting  question  is  the  proper  de- 
gree of  freedom  that  may  be  exercised,  and  no 


126  Living  by  Natural  Lata. 

end  of  trouble  happens  from  a  conflict  of  opinion 
between  the  individuals  and  "Mrs.  Grundy," 
which  means,  largely,  that  society  and  natural 
sense  disagree.  The  subject  is  too  wide  to  cover 
fully,  but  I  will  offer  these  suggestions:  For 
children  and  young  people,  a  careful  and  intelli- 
gent selection  of  harmonizing  companions  of 
both  sexes  is  one  of  the  imperative  duties  of 
parents.  A  knowledge  of  temperament  and 
phrenology  is  essential  for  this  purpose.  Since 
the  young  people  cannot  be  constantly  watched 
without  injurious  restriction,  they  should  be 
trusted  as  fast  as  they  develop  good  sense  and 
judgment.  To  this  end,  children  must  be  taught 
to  understand  and  respect  themselves  and  each 
other  as  fast  as  they  are  capable  of  understand- 
ing, and  become  curious  to  know  the  mysteries  of 
life.  Children  are  never  injured  by  correct 
knowledge  properly  given,  and  nearly  all  bad 
habits  and  practices  spring  originally,  in  part, 
from  sheer  ignorance. 

Among  grown  people,  the  requirements  of 
self-knowledge  and  self-respect  should  have  a 
first  place.  The  degree  of  freedom  and  liberty 
with  which  friends  may  properly  express  them- 
selves is  in  quite  close  proportion  to  their  knowl- 
edge of  the  gender  nature,  its  laws,  instincts  and 
impulses.     I  should  also  lay  down  this  proposi- 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         127 

tion — a  rare  one,  perhaps — that  the  less  out- 
siders meddle  with  and  notice  other  people's 
friendships,  the  better.  If  parents  do  not  in- 
struct their  children  how  to  take  care  of  them- 
selves before  they  are  grown  up,  it  is  of  little  use 
to  attempt  it  afterward.  Even  if  young  people 
do  make  serious  mistakes,  it  is  better  to  let  them 
learn  wisdom  by  experience  than  for  friends  to 
nag  and  criticize.  Wrong  doing  is  always  a  vio- 
lation of  natural  instinct  (if  it  really  is  wrong), 
and  will  surely  punish  itself  without  the  aid  of 
the  neighbors. 

There  is  one  very  delicate  matter  in  friendly 
relationship  that  I  will  attempt  to  touch  upon 
carefully,  for  it  is  very  rarely  understood,  and 
that  is  the  strong  physical  sex  attraction  which 
many  experience  and  often  find  difficult  to  con- 
trol. From  the  almost  universal  imperfections 
of  birth,  most  people  are  either  deficient  or  un- 
balanced in  their  gender  nature.  Again,  society 
practically  teaches  the  male  half  to  develop  an 
excessive  expression  of  the  gender  nature,  while 
girls  are  taught  an  even  more  harmful,  if  not  so 
offensive,  restraint  in  expression.  If  both  sexes 
were  properly  and  sensibly  taught,  they  would 
naturally  develop  a  far  more  healthful,  easy  and 
enjoyable  code  of  manners,  both  dignified  and 
graceful.     They  would  be  able  to  enjoy  the  full 


128  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

beauty  of  eyes  and  form;  they  would  be  able  to 
reach  the  deeper,  finer,  more  delicate  currents  of 
thought,  and,  what  is  of  equal  consequence,  they 
could  enjoy  and  receive  the  benefit  of  those  subtle 
currents  of  electro-magnetism  which  circulate  all 
through  any  two  bodies  when  they  feel  the  sense 
of  harmonious  attraction,  free  from  embarrass- 
ment, And  this  leads  to  the  imperative  duty  of 
each  person  to  keep  every  part  of  himself  in  the 
most  pure-blooded,  healthful  and  enjoyable 
physical  condition.  A  man  should  cultivate  a 
strong  magnetic,  or  generous,  quality ;  a  woman 
should  develop  a  finely  responsive  electric  qual- 
ity, the  two  natures  being  reciprocal  throughout. 
Many  of  our  social  misfits  come  from  the  com- 
mon lack  of  masculine  generosity  and  of  feminine 
receptiveness.  All  bad  habits  and  physical  neg- 
lect in  either  are  injurious  to  both. 

I  will  close  this  branch  of  my  topic  by  refer- 
ring to  a  large  class  of  women  who,  from  differ- 
ent causes,  feel  a  keen  sense  of  hunger  for  that 
subtle  magnetism  which  every  strong  man  radi- 
ates. This  hunger  sometimes  becomes  so  intense 
that  many  women — both  married  and  single — 
literally  droop  and  die  from  no  other  original 
cause.  Men  and  boys  ought  to  be  taught  all 
these  conditions  of  the  feminine  nature,  and  to 
appreciate  the  enjoyable  privilege  and  duty  of 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         129 

making  their  surplus  magnetism  (which  most  of 
them  waste  so  lavishly,  or  burn  up  in  tobacco 
smoke),  useful  to  their  friends  and  companions. 
A  single  friendly  look  full  in  the  eyes  by  a  good, 
clean  man,  may  carry  with  it  a  current  of  mag- 
netism that  will  give  a  new  lease  of  comfort  and 
hope  to  some  woman  whose  life  is  all  too  full  of 
hunger  and  loneliness,  even  in  the  crowded  city. 

The  marriage  relation,  and  those  phases  of 
life  which  lead  to  it,  make,  of  course,  a  subject  of 
endless  interest.  Did  you  ever  reflect  that  back 
in  the  infinite  past  the  Divine  consciousness  de- 
liberately thought  out,  planned  and  ordained 
such  an  endless  system  of  natural  laws  as  should 
cover  every  contingency  of  human  phenomena? 
I  have  gone  deeply  into  the  study  of  natural  law, 
and  I  find  clearly  that  nature  has  made  monog- 
amy, or  single  marriage,  and  its  consequent  of 
reproduction,  a  positive  and  definite  require- 
ment ;  and  if  this  law  is  neglected  or  violated  in 
any  way,  nature  is  certain  to  punish  the  offender. 
I  must,  however,  say  in  passing,  for  the  benefit 
of  my  unmarried  readers,  that  nature,  even 
though  it  must  punish,  has  not  neglected  its  laws 
of  consolation.  There  are  many — too  many — 
who  from  deficiencies  in  impulse,  from  imperfec- 
tion, or  from  lack  of  opportunity,  do  not  or  can- 
not attain  married  life  and  children.    Also  many 


130  Living  by  Natural  Lam. 

others  who,  though  married,  have  lost  or  failed 
with  their  children.  While  the  primal  instinct 
for  a  future  life,  and  the  sense  of  satisfaction  at 
life's  end  depend  mainly  upon  blood  issue,  yet 
each  one  is  also  given  the  power  to  blend  his 
magnetism  with  the  ever-living  mass  of  society 
by  generous  and  useful  effort,  and  so  stamp  him- 
self upon  the  memory  and  gratitude  of  those 
who  remain,  as  to  save  in  some  degree  the  sense  • 
of  accomplishment  and  immortality. 

While  nature  prompts  and  even  requires  a 
much  greater  degree  of  freedom  and  liberty  than 
our  conventions  permit,  outside  of  marriage,  or 
between  those  married  and  those  not,  it  does 
unquestionably  restrict  such  exercise  of  the  gen- 
der nature  as  would  naturally  lead  to  reproduc- 
tion, to  the  marriage  relation.  I  am  confident 
that  no  normal  and  correctly  educated  man  could 
ever  feel  tempted,  much  less  induced,  to  violate 
that  law.  If  this  fact  could  be  made  generally 
known,  it  would  give  a  great  lift  to  the  whole 
tone  and  character  of  society ;  for  the  Christian 
church  itself,  as  it  was  organized  in  the  early 
centuries,  was  founded  upon  the  denial  of  nat- 
ural purity  in  men  and  women.  There  is  yet  a 
general  belief  that  honor  of  sex  is  not  a  natural 
attribute,  but  that  it  is  a  product  of  the  church 
and  not  to  be  looked  for  or  expected  outside. 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         131 

While  there  is  much  instinctive,  though  often 
blundering,  effort  among  all  of  our  religious 
cults  to  teach  morality  and  character,  none  of 
them  yet  fully  teach  a  true,  healthy  and  moral 
regard  for  the  gender  nature  and  its  relations. 

Like  all  other  human  questions,  the  marriage 
relation  is  a  sense  problem,  and  it  is  the  one  hu- 
man question  that  directly  affects  all  the  senses, 
for  there  cannot  be  a  perfect  marriage  unless  all 
the  corresponding  sense  organisms  can  be  made 
to  vibrate  in  harmony ;  and  this  sense  harmony 
is  something  that  every  young  person  should  be 
taught  to  understand  before  becoming  engaged 
to  marry. 

In  studying  mutual  sense  harmony,  it  should 
be  noted  that  the  different  sense  organisms  have 
differing  relative  values  with  different  people. 
Also  that  few  people  are  fortunate  enough  to  find 
a  perfect  counterpart,  and  it  is  therefore  essen- 
tial to  know  what  organisms  must  have  harmony, 
what  can  be  harmonized,  and  how  to  do  it. 

Among  intellectual  people,  including  those 
of  the  mental  temperament,  the  harmony  of  the 
telepathic  sense,  the  ability  to  think  together 
with  ease,  comfort  and  enjoyment,  to  agree  with 
each  other's  ideas  and  wishes  upon  terms  of 
equality,  and  not  make  it  necessary  to  exercise 
mental  force,  is  absolutely  essential  to  a  proper 
relationship. 


132  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

For  those  who  look  forward  to  parentage,  the 
second  vital  essential  of  harmony  is  that  of  the 
gender  sense.  This  can  be  studied  during  friendly 
companionship  by  noting  the  effect  of  a  close 
presence  upon  the  nervous  system.  If,  at  the 
close  of  each  visit  or  meeting,  the  nerves  of  the 
body  feel  irritated,  excited  or  wearied,  not  even 
mental  attraction,  and  much  less  sex  excitement, 
should  be  allowed  to  violate  natural  sense  by 
marrying;  for  any  marriage  under  such  condi- 
tions can  only  be  immoral  and  result  in  disap- 
pointment. On  the  other  hand,  if  friendship 
gives  the  nervous  system  a  harmonizing  and 
healthful  stimulus,  and  the  two  minds  agree,  as 
I  said  above,  then  it  should  require  little  else  to 
make  the  union  a  success.  I  will  add  that  the 
harmonious  attraction  of  the  other  senses,  es- 
pecially of  the  touch  and  sight,  are  strong  indi- 
cators of  harmony  in  the  gender  sense  and  of  fit- 
ness for  reproduction.  Among  very  musical  peo- 
ple, the  harmony  of  hearing  must  be  carefully 
considered.  The  musical  notes  of  each  must  be 
so  different  as  to  give  mental  attraction,  and  this 
will  be  found  to  follow  closely,  though  not  al- 
ways, with  the  telepathic  harmony. 

As  a  corollary  to  the  senses,  the  system  of 
temperamental  attraction  should  be  carefully 
stated.     Two  people  of  strongly  acid  types  can 


S  UNP 

Natural  L<nn  m  Social  Problems.         133 

never  fully  harmonize,  save  in  a  few  cases  where 
the  electro-magnetic  difference  is  very  great.  A 
system  that  is  strongly  acid  is  usually  accom- 
panied by  an  acute,  critical,  and  often  suspicious, 
nature;  and  it  cannot  strike  against  another  like 
it  without  more  or  less  display  of  fireworks.  On 
the  other  hand,  if  two  people  who  are  both  alka- 
loid and  both  electric  (cool-blooded)  try  to  join, 
they  will  repel  each  other  instinctively  and  their 
union  would  prove  flat  and  unprofitable.  As  a 
general  rule,  the  best  results  will  be  promoted 
when  the  magnetic  temperament  is  united  to  the 
electric,  and  the  mental  or  motive  is  joined  to 
the  vital  type. 

The  lack  of  sense  and  object  education  causes 
society  to  exhibit  generally  different  faults  and 
deficiencies  of  married  life  in  its  different  classes, 
aside  from  the  great  general  fault,  the  lack  of  hu- 
man respect.  The  farmers  of  America  are,  on  an 
average,  the  most  thoughtful  and  reflecting,  the 
most  patriotic  and  self-sacrificing  class  of  soci- 
ety. Their  children  also  average  highest  in 
strength  and  force  of  character.  On  the  other 
hand,  they  generally  lack  the  finer  graces  and 
virtues,  and  rarely  appreciate  the  beauty  and 
other  attractions  of  nature  about  them.  The  am- 
bition of  the  farmer  is  apt  to  be  concentrated  in 
hard,  grinding  work,  which  gives  to  the  man  the 


134  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

enjoyment  in  itself  of  accomplishment;  but  to 
wife  and  children  the  work  is  all  too  often  but 
an  endless  and  weary  drudgery.  All  the  mem- 
bers of  eyery  farmer's  family  need  a  specific 
sense  education  to  enable  them  to  recognize  and 
appreciate  all  the  advantages  of  their  life  in 
beautiful  colors  and  forms,  in  fragrant  odors  and 
pure  atmosphere,  in  natural  scenery,  in  the  end- 
less variety  of  animate  and  vegetable  life;  and, 
most  of  all,  in  the  opportunity  for  deep  and  con- 
centrated reading,  study  and  reflection,  which 
city  life  makes  so  difficult  and  rare. 

In  city  life,  the  greatest  drawbacks  are  the 
difficulty  of  living  a  free  and  natural  life — too 
much  shoes,  rubbers  and  clothing,  especially  for 
children,  so  that  none  of  them  are  able  to  de- 
velop as  strong  constitutions  as  they  might ;  poor 
food  and  worse  cooking ;  many  bad  habits  and  a 
general  drift  to  neurosis,  disease  and  early  death ; 
idleness,  resulting  in  injurious  or  petty  means  of 
killing  time  among  women  of  wealthy  or  well-to- 
do  families  where  servants  are  employed;  ab- 
sorption of  men  in  a  narrow  business  life,  with 
coarse  and  idle  pleasures  for  recreation;  and, 
with  few  exceptions,  no  taste  or  ambition  for  in- 
tellectual life.  The  fate  of  children  in  cities  is 
never  the  best,  is  usually  unfortunate,  and  often 
pitiable.     A   combination   of   good   birth,   good 


Natural  Law  in  Social  Problems.         135 

growth  and  a  sensible  education  is  rare.  They 
are  left  to  get  those  early  ideas  of  life,  that  make 
or  destroy  character  and  health,  from  street  influ- 
ences or  from  ignorant  servants.  They  are  too 
often  regarded  as  an  incumbrance  or  nuisance 
by  parents  who  have  no  proper  desire  or  fitness 
for  parentage — a  condition  of  character  which 
our  city  life  rapidly  breeds.  The  city  is  swallow- 
ing most  of  the  strength  and  character  of  the 
farm  and  giving  too  little  in  return.  Few  fam- 
ilies of  British  ancestry  can  endure  three  gen- 
erations of  city  life  under  prevailing  social  codes 
without  ending  in  the  asylum  or  penitentiary,  or 
by  being  lost  in  barrenness. 

The  excessive  regard  and  desire  for  wealth, 
expensive  indulgence  and  lavish  display  make 
another  fertile  cause  of  character  wrecking  in 
city  life,  and  they  all  come  from  the  failure  to 
appreciate  the  finer  and  more  subtle  forms  of 
enjoyment,  satisfaction  and  acquirement,  and 
this,  in  turn,  arises  from  lack  of  respect  for  life 
and  its  processes. 


136  Living  by  Natural  Laio. 


PHRENOLOGY. 

I  cannot  close  this  work  with  anything  more 
important  than  to  emphasize  the  necessity  for 
making  the  science  of  phrenology  the  foundation 
of  the  study  of  life.  The  term  means  the  science 
of  the  mind  and  its  organ,  the  brain,  and  includes 
the  phenomena  of  the  telepathic  sense.  The 
science  not  only  deals  with  the  brain  and  its  con- 
sciousness directly,  but  follows  its  influence  out 
through  all  the  body.  Every  portion  of  the  body 
is  subject  to  the  influence  of  the  brain,  and  no 
one  can  really  know  any  part  of  the  body  with- 
out understanding  the  springs  of  mental  impulse. 
The  shape,  the  color,  the  health  and  strength,  and 
even  the  surface  lines  of  every  part,  are  expres- 
sions of  the  brain  and  come  within  the  province 
of  phrenology. 

The  reason  why  it  is  not  more  employed  is 
profoundly  significant  of  all  reform  work.  Every 
form  of  authority — social,  theological,  medical 
and  legal— fears  it  more  than  anything  else,  be- 
cause it  will  naturally  do  more  than  anything 
else  to  liberate  society  from  every  form  of  des- 
potic authority.  A  general  phrenologic  instruc- 
tion will  destroy  immorality  and  the  power  of 


Phrenology.  137 

the  priest.  It  will  destroy  disease,  and  with  it 
the  doctor,  the  druggist,  the  dfjiflt,  the  aurist. 
the  occnlist.  and  even  the  surgeon — save  for  acci- 
dents. It  would  do  away  with  the  criminal  court 
and  the  divorce  court.  It  would  close  the  pris- 
ons, the  asylums,  the  reformatories  and  the  alms- 
houses. It  would  develop  generosity  and  grati- 
tude and  destroy  selfishness.  It  would  increase 
the  capacity  for  every  sen  i  >yment  and  do 

away  with  injustice.  It  would  save  the  young 
from  death  and  secure  a  normal  and  «^Apd 
ending  to  the  old  It  would  save  the  tremendous 
waste  of  human  effort  in  producing  things  that 
are  destructive  or  useless,  and  turn  it  to  dressing 
and  beautifying  the  earth. 

How  many  boys  and  girls  have  their  best  pos- 
sibilities for  a  life  work  pointed  out  for  them, 
and  their  education  directed  to  that  end?  How 
many  men  and  women  make  failures  in  business 
or  waste  their  lives  in  smaller  and  poorer  fields 
of  effort  than  they  are  naturally  competent  : 
when  any  good  scientist  could  p»ut  them  ri£ 
How  many  become  lost  in  dishonesty  because 
placed  in  too  great  temptation  by  their  parents 
when  they  would  have  made  good  citizens  if  kept 
from  financial  responsibility  until  character  had 
become  grown  ?  How  many  ever  have  their  weak- 
nesses for  gambling,   for  drinking,   quarrel: 


138  Living  by  Natural  Lata. 

lustfulness  or  other  faults  pointed  out  to  them 
before  they  become  confirmed  by  habit,  and  then 
shown  how  to  avoid  them?  How  many  young 
people  are  ever  educated  to  look  forward  with 
proper  and  intelligent  interest  to  the  problems  of 
home-making,  or  instructed  in  the  laws  of  sex 
attraction  so  as  to  avoid  the  common  misfortune 
of  social  unhappiness?  How  many  know  how  to 
reduce  bad  impulses  and  build  up  those  parts  of 
the  brain  that  are  deficient?  All  this  and  much 
more  can  be  and  is  taught  to  anyone  who  will 
open  his  eyes  and  ears  to  common  sense  and  re- 
fuse to  be  bound  by  our  conventional  supersti- 
tions. 

Justice  to  yourself,  your  family  and  to  society 
demand  such  study  and  knowledge.  Books  with- 
out end  might  be  written  to  illustrate  this  fact. 
All  our  lives  are  corroded,  and  most  of  us  sink 
in  defeat  from  sheer  ignorance  of  what  phrenol- 
ogy as  taught  in  the  school  of  vitosophy  can 
teach. 

I  will  close  this  topic  and  this  volume  by  a 
true  illustration,  within  my  own  knowledge,  of 
what  a  horrible  crime  and  injustice  even  a  good 
community  can  commit  from  refusal  to  use  com- 
mon-sense phrenologic  science. 

In  the  prison  of  our  most  Northwestern  state 
lies  a  man  who  was  never  known  to  commit  an 


Phrenology.  139 

injury  against  anyone,  but  had  the  misfortune  to 
incur  the  prejudice  and  malice  of  a  vicious  ele- 
ment at  the  same  time  when  a  notoriously  selfish 
and  bloody  robbery,  with  murder,  was  committed 
as  the  culmination  of  a  period  of  crime  and  bad 
government.     A  vicious  and  dangerous  chronic 
criminal,  who  was  known  to  have  the  necessary 
mental  deformities  for  such  a  crime,  was  seen 
skulking  near  the  scene  of  the  tragedy  just  be- 
fore it  occurred,  but  in  the  popular  frenzy  of  the 
hour  this  was  overlooked  until  he  had  time  to 
leave  the  country ;   and  the  innocent  victim  of  a 
brewery  gang,  whose  clothes  and  figure  resem- 
bled the  real  criminal,  was  picked  upon  by  a  most 
cunning  and  unscrupulous  official    (who  before 
his  death  became  infamous  for  destroying  the 
reputation  of  good  citizens),  and,  with  no  real 
opportunity  for  defense,  being  without  money  and 
speaking  broken  English,  was  railroaded  into  the 
penitentiary  for  life,  from  which,  owing  to  a  pe- 
culiar rule  of  practice  and  the  refusal  of  official- 
dom to  consider  natural  sense  at  the  expense 
of  time-worn  official  conventionality,  he  cannot 
hope  to  escape  until  common-sense  justice  is  able 
to  make  itself  felt.    Had  phrenologic  science  been 
recognized  and  employed  at  the  time  of  his  ar- 
rest he  could  not  have  been  held,  even  for  trial. 
His  brain  development  showed  that  he  was  far 


140  Living  by  Natural  Law. 

above  the  average  in  honesty  and  conscientious- 
ness, yet  the  murder  was  committed  for  money. 
His  brain  showed  a  well-developed  affection  for 
home,  wife  and  children,  such  as  was  never  pos- 
sessed by  the  murderer  of  a  mother  and  infant, 
as  in  this  case,  while  the  whole  life  of  the  pris- 
oner, to  the  present  day,  has  been  marked  by  a 
fine  and  constant  devotion  to  his  wife  and  young 
family.  Even  from  his  prison  he  has  steadily 
taught  them  character,  courage,  hope  and  faith- 
fulness to  themselves  and  to  their  country;  so 
that  out  of  the  uttermost  depths  of  despair  and 
disgrace  they  have  been  able  to  lift  themselves 
into  an  honorable  and  highly  useful  life,  and 
command  the  highest  respect  and  confidence  of 
the  community.  In  fact,  the  whole  brain  of  the 
man  exhibits,  to  the  satisfaction  of  every  scien- 
tist who  has  studied  it,  just  such  a  life  of  good, 
useful  and  faithful  citizenship  as  he  lived  in  the 
community  before  his  arrest,  and  during  all  the 
time  of  his  confinement,  where  he  has  always 
commanded  the  highest  respect  and  confidence  of 
the  confining  officials. 

Had  the  government  of  his  city  kept  in  its 
employ,  as  every  city  should,  an  expert  in  human 
science,  a  good  description  of  the  real  murderer 
could  have  been  given  to  the  officers  as  soon  as 
the  nature  of  the  crime  was  known,  the  proper 


Phrenology.  141 

man  secured  and  convicted,  and  a  good  and  use- 
ful family  of  citizens  would  never  have  been  sub- 
jected to  the  injustice  of  lifelong  suffering  from 
miserable  official  ignorance  of  natural  law  in  hu- 
man life. 


142  Living  by  Natural  haw. 

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